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• Waterman and Schmitz/Baker City Oregon (Beehive Pottery Jug)
Featured Story: 34th Annual 49er Bottle & Antique Show a Huge Success!
• The Confusing Pottery Companies of 19th Century South Carolina • Ernest Verdier and his French Soda Water • Alabama Bottle Collecting History Spans More Than 75 Years • The Folger House Dig • The Whens and Whys of Insulator Collecting • Coca - Cola Bottle Breaks Records • American Glass Work, Ltd. and American Glass Works, Pittsburgh
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Table of Contents FOHBC Officer Listing 2010-2012..........2 Ernest Verdier and his French Soda Water By Eric McGuire................................... 18 President’s Message................................3 Alabama Bottle Collecting History Spans More Recent Finds..........................................4 Than 75 Years By Tom Lines......................................... 24 At Auction.............................................5 Jar Bling Shards of Wisdom..............................6 By Bruce Schank.......................................27
American Glass Work, Ltd. and American Glass Works, Pittsburgh By Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Beau Schriever, Carol Serr, and Bill Lindsey..52 Favorite Boyhood Soda Mohr Brothers Beverages...................... 59 From Wine to Blood: The Story of Charles Axt and his Catawba Wine By Paul Chance............................. 61
Book in Review....................................8 The Folger House Dig By Michael Dolcini....................................29 OUR 42ND ANNUAL SHOW John O’Dell Tribute...............................10 The Whens and Whys of Insulator Collecting By Linda Buttstead........................ 64 By Bill Haley........................................34 Waterman and Schmitz/Baker City Classified Ads & Ad Rate Info............66 Oregon (Beehive Pottery Jug) Membership Benefits..........................37 By Garth Ziegenhagen................ 12 FOHBC Show-Biz Auburn California 34th annual bottle Show and Sale Show Calendar Listings............. 6 8 The Confusing Pottery Companies of By Ferdinand Meyer V.........................40 19th Century South Carolina Membership Additions and Changes.....71 By Gary P. Dexter................................13 Coca - Cola Bottle Breaks Records By Ferdinand Meyer V ................... 50 Membership Application......................72 2012 - 2014 Election Nominee’s........16
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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a non-profit organization for collectors of historical bottles and related collectible items. Our Primary goal is educational as it relates to the history and manufacture of historical bottles and related artifacts. FOHBC Officers 2010-2012
President: Gene Bradberry, PO Box 341062, Memphis, TN 38184; phone: 901 372-8428; e-mail: Genebsa@comcast.net First Vice-President: Bob Ferraro, 515 Northridge Dr, Boulder City, NV 89005; phone: 702 293-3114; e-mail: mayorferraro@aol.com. Second Vice-President: Ferdinand Meyer V, 101 Crawford, Studio 1A, Houston, TX 77002; phone: 713 222-7979; e-mail: fmeyer@fmgdesign.com. Secretary: James Berry, 200 Fort Plain Watershed Rd, St. johnsonville, NY 13452; phone: 518-568-5683; e-mail: jhberry10@yahoo.com Treasurer: Gary Beatty, 3068 Jolivette Rd., North Port, FL 34288; phone: 941-276-1546; e-mail: tropicalbreezes@verizon.net Historian: Richard Watson, 10 S Wendover Rd, Medford, NJ 08055; phone: 856 983-1364; e-mail: crwatsonnj@verizon.net Editor: Martin Van Zant, 208 Urban St, Danville, IN 46122; phone: 812 841-9495; e-mail: mdvanzant@yahoo.com. Merchandising Director: office vacant Membership Director: Jim Bender, PO Box 162, Sprakers, NY 12166; phone: 518-673-8833; e-mail: jim1@frontiernet.net Conventions Director: Tom Phillips, 6645 Green Shadows Ln., Memphis, TN 38119; phone: 901-277-4225; e-mail: tomlisa.phillips@gmail.com
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Fohbcs President’s Message Gene Bradberry
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e have lost another great collector in our hobby. Gene Kelly, of Oakville, Mo., died suddenly of a heart attack several weeks ago just before our last magazine issue went to press. I met Gene back in the 1970s and he came to just about all our shows here in Memphis. I saw him at many other shows as well. He was always a pleasure to see and deal with. Our prayers and thoughts go out to his family. Welcome to NEW YEAR and hopefully a prosperous one. I feel the economy is slowly recovering and our show attendances should start to improve this year. High gas prices as well as the work environment always affect our hobby. Support your local bottle show and club as they are the backbones of our hobby. NOT NEAR A CLUB? WHY NOT START ONE IN YOUR AREA? Contact our membership director, Jim Bender, for a sample set of bylaws and some hints on getting one started. Speaking of traveling and shows, let me put in a plug for EXPO 2012 in Reno, Nev., July 27-29. (See the ad in the magazine or go to our website, FOHBC.org) It is promising to be a really great show and an event that you will not want to miss. Well, it is that time again and in this issue of the magazine, we have a slate of officers put forth by the nominating committee (Tom Lines, chairman) for 2012-2014. The slate is being put forth for your consideration and anyone desiring to run for office may be nominated by going to the website and printing out a nomination form. Then, mail it to Tom Lines, P.O. Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238. Closing
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date for nominations is April 1, 2012 at midnight. Additional nomination will be printed alongside the slate proposed by the nominating committee and will be listed in the MayJune issue of Bottles and Extras, with a short bio of each candidate. After nominations close, you will be sett a ballot with the full slate of nominees, including the region director for the region in which you live. Ballots will be returned to a central address and brought to the Reno convention to be opened in the presence of the membership at the general membership meeting. They will be counted and the results posted at the count’s conclusion. Further details on the voting procedure will be forthcoming in the next issue of Bottles and Extras. Election of officers is very important and an integral part of our organization. Please make every effort to inform yourself about each candidate and cast your ballot promptly upon receipt of it. This is your organization and we want all members to have a voice in the selection of officers and we want the electoral process to be open and above board. In closing, I would like to quote a well known public figure who I’ve always liked to read about. I put a lot of stock in his writings. From the pen of Dale Carnegie: “GET THE FACTS. LET’S NOT EVEN ATTEMPT TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS WITHOUT FIRST COLLECTING ALL THE FACTS IN AN IMPARTIAL MANNER.” As always, let’s keep the fun in bottle collecting Gene Bradberry, President, FOHBC
Have something to share, tell us about it? Have you been out finding some treasures? Keep us informed, write to: mdvanzant@yahoo.com Martin Van Zant 208 Urban St. Danville Ind. 46122
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Recent Finds Face Jugs Are Common; What About a Face Bank? ollectors of Southern pottery are familiar with face jugs, first created by slaves and later by contemporary potters. Some of the better known face jugs were the creations of Lanier Meaders, whose shop was near Cleveland in White County, northeast Georgia. Some of his early face jugs were sold by the Smithsonian. Owner of this crude face During the excavation bank used a hammer to of a late 19th-early 20th break it open, retrieve the century landfill, collector money. (Photo by Bea Baab Bob Riddick, of Lexington, S.C., was scratching around in a burnt layer when he came across what probably is a unique piece. Glazed in Albany slip, the piece turned out to be a savings bank with a face. The bank’s owner more than a 100 years before Riddick’s discovery had taken a hammer and broken open the bank to get his (or her) money. The face – a grinning caricature of a Negro’s features – is intact. The glaze extended into the slot through which coins were deposited in the bank. Southern pottery experts have attributed the bank to master potter Joseph G. Baynham (1841-1906), whose pottery was established near Trenton, S.C. Also discovered during the dig was a ceramic decorated spittoon, also attributed to Baynham. – BILL BAAB
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outhern bottle collectors excavating a late 19th – early 20th century landfill were surprised to uncover a onegallon was sealer storage jar decorated in cobalt slip. The salt-glazed container shows a pair of flowers on stems on one side. There are no pottery markings on the pot. While cobalt slip isn’t unknown in the South, most potters in Georgia and South Carolina used iron or kaolin slip to decorate their alkaline glazed ware,. Albany slip, or variations thereof, came into the pottery picture during the late 19th century in Georgia
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and South Carolina. It is possible that the jar was turned and fired in the northeast and was brought by train or stage coach into the South. It also is possible that the jar was made by a North Carolina potter.An expert on Southern pottery thinks the pot was made in Ohio, perhaps the East Liverpool area. – BILL BAAB Altona Godess ow that it has been cleaned up, I just thought you all would like to see what the new rare one of kind pictorial 1869 Altona Godess case gin now looks like. This is the only known example in the world of this highly sought after pictorial case gin. For other fine super rare pictorial case gins that have been found in 2011, please look at my very good friend Bill Brown’s website in Australia. It is the #1 case gin website in the world. www. gin-bottles.com My friend Larry Chipman in the U.S. Virgin Islands has this super fine rare 1869 Altona Godess case gin in his private collection. Hope you all enjoy the photos. I keep telling folks there are still many many rare gins still out their to be found. Happy Bottle Hunting!!!!!!! Dwight
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HEMINGRAY MELON RIBBED QUART. Color: DARK AQUA. Closure: reproduction metal screw cap. Appearance: shiny glass. Condition: flaking of the ground mouth. Base: smooth with a slight rocker base effect. Age: 1860’s Availability: scarce. This Jar realized $938.00
GLOBE Wide Mouth PINT. Color: AQUAMARINE. Closure: original wide mouth glass lid and original 3-piece iron clamp assembly. Appearance: shiny. Condition: no damage. Strength of embossing: medium to strong. Base: “3”. Age: early 1900’s (smooth lip finish). This Jar realized $390.00
PATENT JUNE 9 1863 CIN O Wide Mouth HEMINGRAY Size: QUART. Color: STRONG AQUAMARINE. Closure: scarce correct original wide mouth iron cap with patent date lettering, and the original glass insert. Appearance: crude, whittled and bubbly glass. Condition: no damage including a nice ground mouth with very little nicking. Base: unmarked. Age: 1860’s. Availability: scarce to find with original closure, especially in this condition. This Jar realized $460
DEEP COLOR Quart RAVENNA GLASS WORKS Iron Pontil Color: OUTSTANDING DARK AQUA. Closure: grooved ring wax sealer mouth finish with a rough-sheared inner lip. Appearance: shiny. one surface bubble partially burst, and the rough sheared inner mouth probably from the making Strength of embossing: medium to strong. Base: iron pontil scar, Age: 1850’s. Availability: Rare in this outstanding color. This Jar realized $3155.00
HGCo on Reverse MASONS 1858 Quart BLACK GLASS Appears to be more of a black amber color, whereas normally these are very dark green). Closure: early lugged CFJCo zinc cap. Appearance: shiny glass. Condition: shallow chipping around the ground mouth. Strength of embossing: strong Base: “5” Age: made in 1877 by Hemingray Glass Company. This Jar realized $10,350.00
STAR Below a Pictorial STAR BlueAqua HALF GALLON Size: HALF GALLON. Color: Lt BALL BLUE. Closure: glass insert with a 5-pointed star and a zinc screw band. Appearance: shiny. Condition: normal flaking of the ground mouth. Strength of embossing: strong. Base: unmarked. Age: late 1800’s. This Jar realized $92.00
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hat’s the largest case gin in the world look like? Who knows how many were made? The case bottle must have taken four men two to three hgours to blow it. It stands almost 24 inches tall and weighs between 20 and 25 pounds. It was blown into a two-piece iron mold, double-embossed, with an applied “pig snout” and has an applied seal embossed AVH on its shoulder. That seal is close to the size of an American half-dollar. It is on display in a Holland museum. (Notes, photo courtesy of Dwight Pettit)
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recently acquired a couple of whiskey drummer/ salesman cases from the late 1800s by Braunschweiger and Co. out of San Francisco (see attached). I acquired them in Idaho. I’ve been doing a bit of research based on what I can find and through talks with the previous owner but I’m wondering if you have any info you can share about this. Oak Valley Distillery provided the whiskey to Braunschweiger as I understand it but I can’t find much about Oak Valley - do you have any info on them? Have you seen any of these whiskey drummer cases around? I haven’t seen another one from Braunschweiger and can’t
help but wonder if Herman Braunschweiger may have been the original owner at one time. . Thanks for your help and input - Jeff. Jeff Lawrence, 74jeff@gmail.com
Send in your recent finds and any recent hobby news to Martin Van Zant, mdvanzant@ yahoo.com
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The Phoenix Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Club (P.A.B.C.C.)
Presents:
Our 2012 ANTIQUE SHOW & SALE! Joined by the AZ Antiques & Collectibles Club
North Phoenix Baptist Church 5757 N. Central Ave., Phoenix, AZ
February 24th, 2012 – 4 p.m.-7 p.m. (Early Bird from 2 p.m.-4 p.m., $10)
General Admission is $3 after 4:00 p.m. Friday
February 25th, 2012 – 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
General Admission $3 For more information contact: Betty Hartnett at 602-317-4438 or bettchem@cox.net Visit us at: phoenixantiquesclub.org
Collectibles at our show will include Blakely Lanterns Railroad Advertising Depression Glass
Sent in by June Lowry
Bottles Dolls Breweriana Tools China
Kitchenware Newspaper Coins & Tokens Signs Mining
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BALTIMORE ANTIQUE BOTTLE CLUB Presents its
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Doors Open -8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Physical Education Center Essex CampusCommunity College of Baltimore County 7201 Rossville Blvd. (off exit 34, I-695) Baltimore, Maryland 21237 Free bottle appraisals
Bottles, Jars, Stoneware, Advertising, Breweriana, Small antiques The Largest one-day Bottle show in the world!—over 300 tables
Admission $3
For Information Contact: Rick Lease - Show Chairman
Telephone: 410-458-9405 Email:baltojar@comcast.net For Contracts: Andy Agnew
Telephone: 410-527-1707
Email: medbotls@comcast.net
www.baltimorebottleclub.org
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Soda Spectrum Invaluable to Collectors of ACL Bottles A Review By Bill Baab Soda Spectrum is a neat little magazine that’s been around (at this writing) for 58 issues. Editor Blair Matthews concentrates on stories about small bottlers and other topics of interest to collectors of Applied Color Label bottles. I’ve had an ACL Mil-Kay bottle in my collection for several years, but could never find out anything about it through local sources such as city directories and newspaper archives. The current issue (No. 58) has a feature story about MilKay written by correspondent Joseph Lee. It answered all my questions. Contributors to the magazine include “Chero Mike” Elling, of Sharon, Tenn., who also contributes to Bottles and Extras. The magazine was started in 1997 (the first issue was Winter 1998). Matthews had been a collector of soda pop since the late 1980s, focusing mostly on cans – Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7UP, A&W Root Beer – anything that was different or commemorative, “I was always looking for information about soda collecting and there wasn’t a source that helped me know what was out there, what was coming out or information about bottlers of the past,” he said. “I knew there must be other people like me out there – at least I hoped there were.” Soon after that the eBay craze started “and I quickly found out that there was, indeed, a niche I could fill.” Back then, the magazine was called Soda Pop Dreams, with the present name change coming in 2009. Matthews’ philosophy hasn’t changed over the years: “Give folks a good mix of information about old and new collectibles, document finds, educate about the history of the North American soda industry and show them things they probably haven’t seen.” Subscriptions to the Soda Spectrum in Canada or the United States is $19.95 a year (for four issues) in either Canadian or U.S. funds, depending upon the place of residence. “About 80 percent of our subscribers are in the U.S., and the rest are scattered across Canada and overseas. We accept PayPal via our web site as well as personal checks.” To subscribe, visit the web site at http://www. sodaspectrum.com and click on the “subscribe” tab. Or send personal check or postal money order to: Playing With Word Specialty Publications, P.O. Box 1092, Mount Albert, Ontario, Canada LOG 1MO (payable to Playing With Words.
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Augusta on Glass The Retail Dairies of Aiken, Columbia and Richmond Counties By Bill Baab A Review By Dar Furda Western Region Editor he author tells us of his personal memories of the retail dairy business as a kid. He suggests that if you were a youngster in the 1920s, ‘30s, ‘40s or ‘50s, you may have heard a “clink-clanking” sound of glass milk bottles being delivered to either the back or front porch of your house. Milk or other products were usually delivered from a metal carrier in the milk man’s hand. After placing filled bottles on your porch he would pick up the “empties” that had been left for him. The Baab family drank milk produced by “The Sancken’s Dairy” that is one of many dairies mentioned in this book. The intent of this book, as the second supplement to Augusta on Glass “is to cast a nostalgic look back at the era of the glass milk bottle, especially the ones embossed or painted with Augusta area dairy names. Here is a fact stated by the author, “The Augusta area retail dairy business started booming during the first quarter of the 20th century and by 1925 there were no less than 54 milk-producers in Aiken, Columbia and Richmond counties.” Whether you are aware of the early decades of glass milk bottles and home deliveries, or not, the history of more than 35 dairies has been capably captured by Bill. He has utilized such resources as personal and phone interviews, and newspaper articles. There are paragraphs mentioning people who have assisted Bill in collecting history about early dairy farms. Bill’s wife Bea accompanied Bill during interviews and photographed significant persons. In addition, photo images of the multiple Augusta area glass milk bottles appearing throughout this book are taken mainly of bottles belonging to the author’s good friend, and collector, Charles Hilton. Bill gives credit of the development of the photo images of bottles found in this book to Susan Glazner who is well known to fellow Georgians. Speaking of glass milk bottles, there is a picture of a pint milk bottle from the Eldorado Farm Dairy. It was found by bottle collector Terry Smith in 2011 while sorting through bottles in a shed. The author learned that, “Smith’s bottle is the only known example.”
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What you will learn from the contents of this book, beside the apparent reason it was written, is the history of the human aspect of the kinds of “pioneering” people it took to build and maintain the early retail dairies. Much of what constitutes the “early decades” of the retail dairy business was done on a small scale with families dedicated to the confinement and hard work of owning and running a farm. Family-owned farms were prevalent during those earlier decades. Also prevalent was the closeness of family, community and when time allowed, civic involvement. I also have a connection to the early retail dairies with my having a childhood experience of living on a farm in upstate New York that was operated by my father and uncle. I had an opportunity to experience glass milk bottle deliveries, complete with metal carriers. In reading this book I found many similarities between how the farmers in the southern and northern parts of our great country ran their businesses. Bill’s Augusta on Glass flooded my “memory” bank. In my opinion this is definitely a book for the historian as well as the collector. These 118 pages of Bill Baab’s book include numerous illustrations of past decades. The subject matter certainly brings our attention to perhaps a long-forgotten era. It is sadly stated in this book that unfortunately there was only so much information available, to the author, as some dairy
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histories have been lost forever. You can include this book on your shelf among your other bottle-related ones for the price of $25, plus $5 for shipping and postage for each book. If you live in the area and want to pick up a copy, you can drop the $5 fee. You can order your book directly from the author: Bill Baab, 2352 Devere Street, Augusta, GA 30904 – Home: (706) 736-8097 E-mail: riverswamper@comcast.net
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John “Digger” Odell Tribute The antique bottle hobby lost another stalwart when John cancer. When this summer John wrote me that he had cancer Arthur “Digger” Odell, 62, died Oct. 27 after a hard-fought and was frightened, I was frightened with him. He asked me battle with an aggressive form of lung cancer. for my prayers and gave me permission to post his note on “Despite his dedication to healthy living, exercise, Facebook. The bottle collecting community offered their jogging and diet (I’d kid him about prayers and best wishes, too. In eating all those seeds, nuts and August, John wrote to me: fruits on the way to shows together, ‘Today and yesterday are good an aggressive form of lung cancer days. . .day nine chemo round two. caught up with him this year,” said . .I am hanging in there. Enjoy the internationally known cure collector bottle thread, although I cannot John Wolf, of Dayton, Ohio. keep up daily. Thank you for the “John and I met through ads in thoughts and prayers. I am gonna the Old Bottle Magazine in 1974. win this one.’ He already had a thing for old patent “My thanks go to you, dear medicine bottles then and was one John, for your friendship, your sense of the first to visit this young cure of humor, your brilliant smile. I will collector in 1975, When we stayed miss you and the bottle collecting in his home in Garrettsville, Ohio community has lost a friend as well. on our way to the Akron Bottle Rest in peace, John, you’ve earned Show soon after, he was collecting it,” she writes. information for his Indian Bottles “John published his first book, and Brands (1977). After that, we Indian Bottles and Brands, in 1977,” stayed in touch and shared data and Charlton said. “I was collecting many bottles through the years, as Indian medicines for one year and well as lots of good stories. John was totally ecstatic to have a book seemed to know everyone in the to refer to. I obtained a copy and bottle world. corresponded with John by mail and “He was a consummate digger phone – there were no computers in southwestern Ohio, especially in or e-mail then. In 1978, we met in the Cincinnati/Covington area, and person at the York, Pennsylvania sold his Secrets of Privy Digging bottle show at the old fairgrounds. for many years,” said Wolf. “He also What a thrill it was for me! John told compiled a series of books covering Thanks to Marianne Dow, and the Findlay Ohio me something surprising: when he by category all of the items from wrote the book, he wasn’t collecting Newsletter for use of the Photo. Jim Hagenbuch’s Antique Bottle & Indian bottles, but by now he was Glass Collector auctions. an avid collector and we became “John loved to do research and excelled at it, visiting fast friends. He signed my book: ‘Dana, who puts an arrow major libraries around the country for weeks at a time, as well through my heart each time she shows me a new Indian!’ as the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C. In more recent “When John wrote his follow-up book, More Indian years, he became an accomplished online researcher.” Bottles and Brands, I gladly contributed information. At Among books from “Digger Odell Publications” were Barber one point, John offered to sell me his entire collection of Bottles (2009), Bitters Bottles (2010), Sodas, Porters & Ales Indian bottles, but would not sell single items. I turned down (2009), Medicine Bottles (2012), Pontil Medicine Encyclopedia the offer, but it didn’t hurt our friendship. I remember John (2007), Saratoga & Mineral Water Bottles (2010), Fire Grenades telling me he’d dug a Hamilton’s Indian Liniment, a very & Target Balls (2011) and Indian Bottles and Brands (1977). scarce, open pontiled bottle, in a privy in downtown St. Louis. He authored numerous bottle stories published in Another time, John called to alert me of a rare Dr. Keeler’s Antique Bottle & Glass Collector and other publications. Indian Sarsaparilla in a mail bid auction to see if we’d be “His AB&GC articles on various aspects of patent medicines bidding against one another and suggested that we try to win were always amazingly thorough and enjoyable,” Wolf added. the bottle and ‘time-share’ possession of it. We didn’t win it, “And his two volumes of the Patent MedicineEncyclopedia but it showed our trust for one another. have become the ‘bible’ for collectors.” “John lived in Ohio and me in New York, so we saw each other Another Odell friend and fan, Dana Charlton, “was so infrequently. But we stayed in touch over the years and always saddened to learn that my friend lost his valiant battle with remained friends. Last time I saw John was at the Baltimore show
January - February 2012 11 Bottles and Extras in 2010. By then, he was the famous ‘Digger’ Odell, finding his niche in preparing bottle books in all the categories.” In real life, John was a member of the Mason City Schools By Board. A beloved educator, he had an extensive career as an Jennrog Collectables innovative Mason teacher and curriculum leader from 1985 x Professional cleaning with a personal touch. until he retired in 2006. He won a seat on the school board in x Nearly 10 years in the industry. 2009 and brought the same passion for learning to that body x References available. as he did in the classroom. x Pricing – Single bottle - $17.00 Survivors include his widow, Susan M. Odell; his Pontiled - $18.00 children, David Holyoke Odell amd Katherine Holyoke Odell; Discounts available for lots of 6 or more items stepchildren, Kristina Baker Lamb, Danielle Renee Baker and x Turnaround time is typically 5-6 weeks. Paul Eric Baker; and a sister, Becky Clough. x See our Bottle Cleaning Page on website, below. We are happy to announce that we are now the Northeast Distributor for: A memorial service was held Nov. 1 and as it ended, by his request a Dixieland band played “When the Saints Go Jar Doctor™ Marching In!” Donations in the memory of John may be sent to The Mason Schools Foundation, P.O. Box 183, Mason, OH 45040. in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Eastern
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WATERMAN/-AND-/SCHMITZ / BAKER CITY/-ORE- (BEEHIVE POTTERY JUG) By Garth Ziegenhagen
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t is always nice to find out some new information on a pre-pro bottle, jug, or go-with. I spotted this item about 200 feet away and knew it was one of the beehive jugs but wasn’t aware until I turned it around that it was a Baker City jug. It is a half-gallon size that is 8 1/2” tall and 7 “ wide. There are other Beehive jugs, but this one is different from almost all the other Oregon ones except the Chas Stubling Beehive from The Dalles, Oregon. On both jugs the writing is incised by just not being glazed in brown . It turns out that Waterman and Schmitz also had a couple of Hutchinson soda bottles. The photo and below quoted article came from the Baker City Library:
Photo by Linda Ziegenhagen
“KENTUCKY LIQUOR STORE. The enterprise of John Waterman and John Schmitz dates its formation back to 1889. The premises occupied are on the corner of Front and Center streets, and are of ample dimensions for the storage of the large stock carried. Carrying a large stock of imported wines and liquors and cigars, their trade has steadily grown from a small beginning until today it is the largest in this section of the state. They cater extensively to the family trade, having such high grade goods in stock as Bond & Lilliard’s, McBrayer’s, Spring Hill, Old Hermitage, Old Crow, Jesse Moore, Crescent Rye and Bourbon, controlling the sole agency of the three latter brands of whiskies. In cigars they carry all the leading brands, including Powell, Smith & Co.’s goods, La Flor de Madrid, Estrellas, Chancellors and others. They also own the Bottling Works, and manufacture all kinds of soft drinks, such as soda, cider, sarsaparilla, and so forth. In this department they employ five men continuously. Their success has been altogether due to their carrying pure liquors, and their reliable and honest treatment of all patrons. Few men can point to a more successful and dignified business career In Baker City, than John Waterman and John Schmitz, and no man has a higher standing either commercially or socially.” They sold their business to Juius Muller in 1900, apparently no connection to the KENTUCKY LIQUOR CO in Portland from 1906 until prohibition closed it in 1915.
Drawings from AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF OREGON SODA BOTTLING BY RON FOWLER 1981
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The Confusing Pottery Companies of 19th Century South Carolina By Gary P. Dexter
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Gary Dexter is a master potter and historian who lives in Aiken County, South Carolina. He has explored the waster piles of the Southern Porcelain Company and South Carolina Pottery Company, with this story as the result) TheSouthernPorcelainManufacturing Company KAOLIN, S.C., (near present day Bath, in Aiken County) – There has been an immense amount of confusion among historians, collectors and auction houses regarding several similar sounding names belonging to 19th century pottery companies, two of which were located in present day Aiken and Edgefield counties in South Carolina. Not only are the names similar, but the hallmarks stamped on the ware and the pattern of the ware are very similar to those of other potteries in the United States that were being manufactured about the same time. There are a number of pieces in the collections of museums and private collectors which have become entangled in the web of confusion and are improperly attributed. There are many pieces which have sold at auction that were attributed to the wrong maker. The following addresses the companies individually and give examples of respective marks and wares made. The Southern Porcelain Company opened in 1856. Important potters from the United States Pottery Company in Bennington, Vermont closed down their business and headed South. They believed that all necessary ingredients for the production of fine porcelain, flint ware and granite ware were on hand at the South Carolina location. The company set about manufacturing using only local materials and results were mixed. Soon, the company changed managers
as well as philosophies and started importing needed materials. Near failure changed to success. America’s premier potter, Christopher Weber Fenton, of Bennington, assisted the firm until it had attained a profitable footing. As the Civil War came into the picture, the northern owners sold the firm to southern interests. Among the new owners was Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States of America, and George Bullock, governor of Georgia. The company devoted a large amount of its production to insulators for the Confederate Telegraph Co. The firm also made sturdy molded wares for Confederate hospitals, including large tile drainage pipes, refractory tiles and refractory brick.
Early wares of the company were slip-cast in molds crafted by Daniel Greatbach, Decious Clark and Josiah Jones, all of whom were America’s premier modelers at other great northern potteries. Some of the molds created were used only at Southern Porcelain Company. Others, like the corn pitcher and the waterfall pitcher, were also made in Bennington. The handles and exquisite knobs on the ware were unique to Southern Porcelain. Full dinner sets and related items like compotes, gravy boats, spittoons, vases, covered jars, tureens, trivets and soap dishes were just a few of its products. It has been falsely written that the molds of the Southern Porcelain Company were used at two other Horse Creek potteries in Aiken County. There is no evidence to support this and the
Here’s the Southern Porcelain Company mark. (Photos courtesy of Gary Dexter)
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Civil War-era insulators made by Southern Porcelain Company in Kaolin, S.C. supposition has been printed so much that it has almost become a fact in peoples’ minds. It also has been mistakenly written that Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s army burned the company on the March to the Sea. Truth is, in 1864, a fire started in the steam engine house and quickly spread through the mold house, ware shop and other buildings. All were destroyed. The company reorganized and attempts lasting into the 1880s to restart the concern, but little was accomplished. The kaolin holdings and land were sold to William McNamee, of New York, who was engaged in the manufacture of wall paper. He set up an office in nearby Augusta, Georgia from where casks of kaolin were shipped to locations throughout the world. McNamee clay is still being mined today from the old Southern Porcelain Company lands and is known as some of the finest in the world. It even carries a registered trade mark after the McNamee name. It is the
area’s only kaolin capable of making fine hard paste porcelain. There are several different marks used on the company’s various wares. The eagle within a cartouche is most likely the earliest mark and is almost identical to the last mark used by the U.S. Pottery Company in Bennington. The name inside the shield was the last mark used and is found on some Confederate insulators. Most of the ware fragments found at the site bear no mark on the base, or are marked with an X. The X was found with or without marks, on porcelain as well as insulators. The most in-depth study of the company was published in 1995 by “Jon E. Wreb.” The Southern Porcelain Company is often confused with, or wrongly identified because of the Speeler Pottery Company, a 19th century Trenton, New Jersey firm. The Speeler mark is very similar to that used by Southern Porcelain. Both firms used a curious double hashmark below
the “o” in Co. The South Carolina Pottery Company Sunny Brooke, present day Aiken County – The South Carolina Pottery Company operated in the 1880s on land along Big Horse Creek that was purchased from the Lewis Miles estate. Miles had operated a pottery for many years. His daughter, Sallie, was married to John Cahill, who with James L. Jervey and A. Craig set up the company. It produced an assortment of cast and molded yellow ware, china pitchers, bowls and teapots as well as large storage jars, churns and jugs. Perhaps the single item most mistakenly attributed to the firm is the Rebecah at the Well teapot. While that style was made by the firm, it is unlike the dozens of other pottery companies’ models in that it has a square handle and a square interlocking tab which keeps the lid from falling off while pouring. The Rebecah at the Well teapot
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Mill tract. Loss of hundreds of cords of firewood to wild fires and the break of the dam caused by burrowing muskrats forced the company to close. The Speeler Pottery Company mark is most often confused to be that of the South Carolina Pottery Company, or the Southern Porcelain Company. Compare the respective marks in the photos accompanying this story. It is interesting to note that all of the upper Horse Creek and Shaw Creek potteries used Pinehouse as REBECAH AT THE WELL pitcher found at Southern Porcelain Company. a reference to their locations. It wasn’t is believed to be the most reproduced heavy utilitarian pieces often can be until the South ceramic item in the history of the United found in antiques stores or flea markets Carolina Pottery Company started that States. South Carolina Pottery Rebecah around the area. the town of Trenton became the point Much of the cast yellow ware is of reference for that portion of present teapots have been found with different numbers appearing on the bottoms as identical in appearance to wares made at day Aiken and Edgefield counties. well as the word “Fireproof.” Other several prominent New Jersey potteries A final note: To cause further companies’ teapots also were marked of the late 19th century., Those include confusion, there was a much later with the word. It refers to an 1880s the Mayer Pottery, the Arsenal Pottery company called the South Carolina patent involving notches or raised pads and the Speeler Pottery. It is possible Pottery Company in North Augusta, on the teapot’s bottom, supposedly that these companies’ molds were South Carolina. It was started by the enabling it to be placed on the wood purchased and being used at the South Baynhams in 1910. It made mostly Carolina Pottery Company. It is also garden ware, but also kept a small stove’s burner lid without cracking. The bulk of the waster pile of the possible that much of the unglazed ware inventory of utilitarian ware. The South Carolina Pottery Company site was being made and fired at the Horse company used an incuse stamp with is of bisque-fired items. There is a Creek site, then shipped north from South Carolina Pottery Company on noticeable absence of glazed shards. A the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta it.. In no way does it resemble the older few Rockingham or mottled manganese Railroad depot located at the Sunny company’s mark. The Aiken County glazed shards have been found as well Brooke site. Much of the cast ware Historical Museum has one such piece as clear feldspathic glazes. Numerous is identical to the rusticated majolica in its collections. shards from large jugs, jars and churns patterns popular in that period. appear mostly as pink, due to a trace of Similar slip-cast chamber pots have iron in the clay body, which is covered been recovered from archaeological site by a white, frosty, transparent glaze. 38ED221, the Joseph G. Baynham site, Other glazes on utilitarian ware range near Trenton, South Carolina. This was from gray to a rich cinnamon color. The a part of the original 1,080-acre Miles
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2012-2014 FOHBC Elections Here is the slate of officers put forth by the nominating committee (Tom Lines, chairman) for 2012-2014. The slate is being put forth for your consideration and anyone desiring to run for office may be nominated by going to the website and printing out a nomination form. Then, mail it to Tom Lines, P.O. Box 382831, Birmingham, AL 35238. Closing date for nominations is April 1, 2012 at midnight. Additional nomination will be printed alongside the slate proposed by the nominating committee and will be listed in the May-June issue of Bottles and Extras, with a short bio of each candidate.
President Ferdinand Meyer V Houston, TX
Business Manager Alan DeMaison Painesville, OH
1st Vice President Bob Ferraro Boulder City, NV
Public Relations Director Pam Selenak Orange, CA
2nd Vice President Jamie Houdeshell Haskins, OH
Director At Large (automatically filled) Gene Bradberry Bartlett, TN
Secretary James Berry St. Johnsville, NY
Director At Large John Pastor New Hudson, MI
Treasurer Gary Beatty North Port, FL
Director At Large John Panek Deerfield, IL
Historian Dick Watson Medford, NJ
Midwest Region Director Randee Kaiser Holts Summit, MO
Editor Martin Van Zant Danville, IN
Northeast Region Director Ed Kuskie Elizabeth, PA
Merchandising Director Sheldon Baugh Russellville, KY
Southern Region Director Jack Hewitt Lawrenceville, GA
Membership Director Jim Bender Sprakers, NY
Western Region Director Dave Maryo Victorville, CA
Conventions Director Tom Phillips Memphis, TN
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Ernest Verdier and his French Soda Water
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By Eric McGuire
he purpose of this article is to document what is probably the earliest siphon bottles made and used in San Francisco , California . There are a number of good articles explaining the history of siphon bottles and their variants, such as gasogenes. I strongly recommend a look at a classic book that, fortunately, has been digitally copied and is available online. A TREATISE ON BEVERAGES, OR THE COMPLETE PRACTICAL BOTTLER, by Charles Herman Sulz, and printed in 1888, is an excellent book that is loaded with wonderful graphics related to the bottling industry. ( see – http://www.archive.org/details/ treatiseonbevera00sulzrich ) Another good article titled “Mixing it Up” by Digger O’Dell includes information on a number of patents that relate to siphon bottles. (see - http://www.bottlebooks. com/Siphons/mixing_it_up.htm) While Sulz covers nearly every conceivable topic related to soda water, including drawings of soda water dispensing carts, he didn’t touch upon the delivery mechanism for siphon bottles. Since the pressure in each bottle must reach 120 to 140 pounds in order to effectively release all its contents, they may easily be considered highly lethal bombs. Careless handling could unleash a deadly shower of glass shrapnel. An extremely graphic example of such an incident was reported at the Steam Soda Works in San Jose , California This photograph of a Mt. Shasta Mineral Spring Co. wagon is loaded in 1869 - and this was a relatively with siphon bottles. It was taken in San Francisco in the 1890’s. common occurrence: perforating the pleura and entering the reach the bleeding vessels, but without A young Italian named Fortinito chest, severing the left vertebral and success. The unfortunate young man Villo came to his death today about interior thyroid artery, destroying both expired almost half an hour after the eleven o’clock in a strange manner. He jugular veins. As soon as it happened accident. (1) was working at the Steam Soda Works his brother took hold of him and ran Each bottle was put into a wooden on Market street , and was engaged with him to Martin’s drug store. Several box containing wooden dividers so in putting soda into bottles, when one of our best surgeons were on hand that the bottles could not come into of them bursted, and a piece of glass in a moment, among whom I noticed contact with each other. The boxes were struck him. It entered the left side of Drs. Turner, Corey, Thorne, James B. then placed onto the bed of a delivery the neck, penetrating downwards, Corey, and great efforts were made to wagon. Just one layer was typically the
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norm since interference with was already associated with the metal siphon valve affixed fine French fashion even before to the top of each bottle should Pauline arrived in San Francisco not be compromised for fear of . There is some indication potential explosion. The horsethat Ernest Verdier, Pauline’s drawn wagon load would then husband, and Emile Verdier, be on its merry way across the held a common ancestry but rough and bumpy streets of the their business interests were day – a ride that surely must completely autonomous. have caused some consternation Ernest Verdier had no interest with the driver. The photograph in or connection with French below is a surviving example of fashion and his wife, Pauline, such a wagon in San Francisco had no interest in the activities that is loaded for delivery. of Emile Verdier and the City The siphon bottles are clearly of Paris store. In fact, Ernest visible. Verdier is not documented in The beginning point of this any business activity in San story is obscured somewhere in Francisco until 1865 when France , probably in Paris . It is he began manufacturing his The first advertisement for Pauline Verdier in San thought that Ernest Verdier and “French mineral water.” Francisco, California. (Daily Alta California [San Pauline Somny were married By the end of 1864, Pauline Francisco, California], February 1, 1863) in Paris about 1857. Their only had demonstrated her business decidedly quiet in the venture and child, Marie, was born in April acumen and apparently became 1858, and the young family maintained probably did not actively participate. concerned that the profits from her The “City of Paris ” store was the success were at risk from her husband their residence in France for several primary outlet for French dry goods in who had the legal right to her earnings years prior to immigrating to the United States . Aboard the steamship Saxonia, San Francisco during its early years. by virtue of the laws of the day. the Verdier family arrived in New York Established about 1850 by Felix and Throughout much of history, wives City on October 8, 1862, but within three Emile Verdier from their headquarters were considered the property of their days they proceeded to San Francisco . in Paris , it was operated by Emile husbands.The doctrine of coverture The United States was fully engaged in Verdier and several other partners until allowed the husband to control much a civil war at that time and immigration 1868. As a result the name of Verdier of the wife’s activities and her property. was considerably reduced. (2) California law allowed for San Francisco undoubtedly a wife to petition for “sole appeared to be a relatively safe trader” status, thus giving her haven from the active hostilities the ability to control her own in the East. After the boat trip business activities and keep her to Panama, they boarded the own profits. Pauline petitioned Pacific Mail Steamship Co’s. for sole trader status and won steamship, Sonora , and arrived this right in September 1864. in San Francisco on November (3) 6, 1862. Young Pauline was Pauline Verdier expanded especially driven in her goal to her business to include enter the business of fashion, dressmaking by 1864. (Daily bringing the world of haute Alta California [San Francisco, couture to the unsettled culture California] December 13, of San Francisco . 1864) Pauline set about arranging Ernest Verdier soon entered for the necessary requirements into the business of selling to run a business in the bustling French mineral water at 311 city and by February 1863 her Dupont Street in San Francisco first newspaper advertisement Pauline Verdier expanded her business to include . It is not clear whether Verdier was published in the Daily Alta dressmaking by 1864. (Daily Alta California [San was dispensing his water solely California. by fountain at this time or Francisco, California] December 13, 1864) Her husband, Ernest, was whether he was using bottles.
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The advertisement for the Steam Soda Works in the 1871 San Francisco Business Directory, and operated by the short lived partnership of Herve & Perry.
This advertisement in the New York Herald reflects Pauline Verdier’s move to New York City. (New York Herald, September 26, 1875) He continued in this business for approximately two years. Based upon his claimed income, Ernest was barely subsisting, while his wife was making a comfortable living. In either 1865 or 1866, it is known that Ernest ordered bottles from the Pacific Glass Works – undoubtedly siphon bottles. The quality of the delivered bottles was not to his liking and he sued the Pacific Glass Works for breach of contract in the amount of $4,000. He initially brought a suit against the glass works in August 1866 (4), but the case didn’t go to trial until December 1867. (5)Within a few days, the jury rendered This article undoubtedly exposed the activities of Mme. Pauline Verdier when her a verdict in favor of Ernest daughter was caught transporting French goods into the United States without paying Verdier, but awarded him only the necessary customs duty. (New York Herald, September 26, 1878) $250. (6) It is assumed that the
Bottles and Extras exacting standards necessary for the effective use of seltzer bottles were not upheld in their manufacture, but it is not known why he was awarded much less than his initial demand. Likely the top finish was not consistent enough to adequately accommodate the siphon mechanism attached to the top of each bottle, but this is only conjecture. Regardless, it is apparent that during his period of operation, Ernest also had bottles blown at the San Francisco Glass Works. Of the two known examples of Ernest Verdier’s siphon bottle, one is composed of a clear glass that is typical of that made at the San Francisco Glass Works from 1865 until June 1868 when that factory burned to the ground. The Pacific Glass Works never ventured into the manufacture of colorless glass since it was the most difficult type of glass to produce. Evidence indicates that 1866 was the last year of production for Ernest Verdier with his French Mineral Water. William Firderer sold coal and Sitka ( Alaska ) ice in partnership with Phil Caduc in Sacramento , California , beginning in 1855. The partnership
January - February 2012 terminated June 6, 1859, (7) and he then operated men’s clothing stores in San Francisco until January 3, 1867. (8) Firderer was listed in the 1867 San Francisco Business Directory as a “French soda and mineral water manufacturer” at 311 Dupont Street , precisely where Ernest Verdier had operated, and Verdier is not documented as being in any business in 1867. In the following year (1868), William Firderer is noted in the San Francisco business directory as being in partnership with George F. Bragg and Phil Caduc and operating the Steam Soda Works at 530 Pacific Street in San Francisco . It is doubtful that either Bragg or Caduc would have operated any soda works directly, as they were both highly successful California businessmen with a number of ventures to manage. It is likely these three
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The tops were finished without the application of a separate parison of glass. This was not a common technique for the period and must have been specially requested by Verdier in order to achieve a more exacting profile for all the bottle tops.
Both pictured examples were blown in the same mold. The dark aqua bottle is typical of the common “green” glass produced in San Francisco during the 1860’s. The colorless example is also typical of the “flint” glass being produced by the San Francisco Glass Works from 1865 to 1868. The pinkish rose color is probably due to the addition The Verdier siphon bottles are nine inches in height and of manganese, the decolorizing agent used to cancel out the contain slightly more than 1 ½ U.S. pints of liquid. green color caused by the presence of iron. (11)
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men purchased Verdier’s business at the beginning of 1867 and Firderer became the operating manager. Regardless, the partners sold the Steam Soda Works to Eugene Herve, who was an employee of the factory. He took on a partner, John H. Perry; however, the company was soon sold to Pierre G. Somps, who continued its operation until the end of the century. The advertisement for the Steam Soda Works in the 1871 San Francisco Business Directory, and operated by the shortlived partnership of Herve & Perry. Perhaps out of work from about the beginning of 1867, Ernest Verdier’s troubles began to compound. His wife filed for divorce in November 1868. (9)Though the suit was dismissed, she filed again in 1869 and was granted a The base of the bottles are smooth and slightly domed with an additional ring, divorce on the grounds of adultery. or foot, around their circumference, which gave the bottle added protection (10) Ernest Verdier seems to have left from the highly pressurized contents. the country after this event – possibly unclaimed French goods. for all the bottle tops. returning to France . This article undoubtedly exposed After the divorce, Pauline Verdier End Notes: remained in San Francisco and the activities of Mme. Pauline Verdier 1. Sacramento Daily Union ( continued to operate her millinery when her daughter was caught business. By 1867, their daughter, Marie transporting French goods into the Sacramento , California ), August 23, Verdier, was sent off to boarding school United States without paying the 1869 2. Rick Gedges & Dean Lueck, in San Jose , about 45 miles south of necessary customs duty. (New York “The Gains From Self-Ownership and San Francisco . She attended what was Herald, September 26, 1878) Perhaps by 1883 her ex-husband, the Expansion of Women’s Rights,” (The then called Academy of Notre Dame, established in 1851 by the Sisters of Ernest Verdier, had died. Pauline was American Economic Review, Vol. 92, No. Notre Dame Namur, a congregation listed in the 1883 New York City 4) September 2002. 3.SacramentoDailyUnion(Sacramento founded in Amiens , France , in 1804. directory as a widow. In the same , California ), September 6, 1864 When she graduated in the early 1870s, year, her daughter, Marie, became a 4. Daily Alta California ( San Pauline and Marie determined to make naturalized U.S. citizen. On October an even bigger name in the fashion 16, 1883, Marie Verdier married Lucien Francisco , California ), August 14, 1866 5. Ibid, December 14, 1867 world by setting up shop in New York Jullian in Manhattan , New York City. 6. Ibid, December 16, 1867 After that date there is no more record City . 7. Sacramento Daily Union( This advertisement in the New of Pauline Verdier or Marie Jullian York Herald reflects Pauline Verdier’s in the United States . Thus ended Sacramento , California ), June 23, 1859 8. Daily Alta California ( San move to New York City . (New York the sojourn of the Verdier family in Francisco , California ), January 7, 1867 the United States , leaving behind a Herald, September 26, 1875) 9. Daily Morning Chronicle ( San Her New York location was much material reminder in the form of glass better suited for making periodic trips bottles, simply marked E. VERDIER Francisco , California ) November 14, 1868 10. Daily Alta California ( San to Paris for purchasing the latest in / SAN FRANCISCO, blown in either Francisco , California ) June 1, 1869 French fashion. Marie also became 1865 or 1866. 11. The San Francisco Bay area The tops were finished without involved in the business for she made a big splash in the newspapers when she the application of a separate parison became a significant exporter of manganese returned from Paris in 1878 and was of glass. This was not a common used in the “soaping” of glass. Pyrolusite (manganese dioxide), was shipped to glass caught by U.S. Customs officials when technique for the period and must have factories throughout the world during the they found that her trunks were fitted been specially requested by Verdier in 1860’s until the deposits were depleted. with false bottoms and stuffed with order to achieve a more exacting profile
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Alabama Bottle Collecting History Spans More Than 75 Years One of a series By Tom Lines
“Montgomery Glass Wow! Where to start? Collectors” sometime Bottle collecting in during the 1930s Alabama came in waves and even published and it started early. After a monthly newsletter 35 years of collecting here through the 1940s (Fig. in Alabama, I have no 2). He wrote articles reservation about making about recent finds by the statement that organized club members and bottle collecting has been included hand-drawn actively pursued for more illustrations of the than 75 years. How is the items (Fig. 3). Little is term “organized” defined? known about this early I’ll say that it’s the pursuit club, with the only of one’s interest with the information coming fellowship of others with from surviving copies similar interests who of the newsletters that regularly meet to discuss Figure 1: Peter Brannon’s column “Through The Years” written for their collections plus share the Montgomery Advertiser. This article featured black glass that was were obtained by Mr., their finds and knowledge coming from the Native American excavations going on within the state. Brannon’s son. Another contemporary of Peter with one another. Brannon’s and also an The great-grandfather early club member was Doy of bottle collecting in Alabama McCall, from Monroeville, had to be Peter A. Brannon from Ala. Some readers may Montgomery. Mr. Brannon, remember Norm Heckler’s associate director of the Alabama first auction after leaving State Archives, had an interest in Skinner’s; he auctioned all facets of Alabama’s history the Doy McCall collection. and associated artifacts way McCall would travel to back in the 1930s. In fact, he New Jersey to meet fellow wrote a weekly column for The collector Ed Hoffman and Montgomery Advertiser entitled from there they would hit “Through the Years,” which many the road for a week-long times profiled bottle and glass antiquing adventure, looking finds in the state (Fig. 1). One for flasks and early glass. story that sticks in my memory This was during the 1940s. is discovery he reported of an In the 1950s, a new African-American graveyard wave of collector began to south of Montgomery where the emerge. Urban renewal and graves were lined with figural expansion began with cities bitters bottles of all shapes, across the state unearthing sizes and colors. . .”examples of long-buried treasures from which would make any collector old and abandoned municipal proud,” he reported. As one who dumping grounds, In respected history and the dignity Mobile, Dr. Sidney Phillips’ of the cemetery, he refused to family began digging divulge the location for concerns and collecting bottles. In that the site might be looted. . .and that was back during the Figure 2: A 1937 newsletter for the Montgomery Glass the Tuscaloosa area, the House family also started Depression. Club, edited by Peter Brannon. collecting. From Glenn Mr. Brannon organized the
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House, the son of Ma’Cille House, I have stories of their beginnings and some of their extraordinary finds over the years. . .like when river banks were dug in Montgomery, finding some 35,000 bottles over a five-week period. Then they learned about digging privies, Their single best find was a triangular Balsdon’s Golden Bitters (Ring B15) that was later sold for $1,000 at an early Mobile bottle show, most likely to another second wave collector and bitters enthusiast Figure 3: Example of the hand drawn illustrations in the newsletters for the Mac Wimmer. Montgomery Glass Club. And this is an exceptional bottle too!.. Glenn said his best dig was currently only a handful are known to exist. uncovering a “nest” of 1846 Ma’Cille Museum of Miscellania in the brought the largest wave of diggers block insulators. The family dug across 1960s in the small west Alabama town and collectors into the hobby. Urban the state and the southeast, including of Gordo. The museum and its contents renewal and expansion of the new Gainesville, Ala., Demopolis, Selma, were sold at auction about 10 years interstate highway system led to the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham ago. Glenn remembers his parents discovery of numerous city dump sites plus New Orleans, Key West, Hilton starting the Tuscaloosa Bottle Club in across the state. Digging was easy and Head Island and St. Augustine, then the 1960s. They met regularly and held many people joined in to prospect for Savannah, Ga., also known as “the swap meets in the Tuscaloosa area, their fortune. Bottle clubs popped up sweet spot.” The House family dug so in Birmingham (1971), Montgomery drawing folks from all around. many bottles than Ma’Cille opened the The 1970s
Birmingham sodas (L-R) Coca-Cola, Elephant Bottling Works, Fountain & Wells (B’hams 1st bottler)
Montgomery sodas (L-R) Wells Brothers & Co (Matthews Gravitating Stopper), D.P. Wests Bottling Vaults, Star Bottling Works.
26 (again), Mobile and Huntsville. At one of the more famous Birmingham area dumps on Greensprings Avenue, 50 to 75 diggers could be seen at the dump on any given Saturday. The Birmingham club had nearly 100 members, including families. Meetings were social events and bottle shows were soon to follow. Bottle shops opened up, with the first shop belonging to Ed Sawicki in Mobile. Another was Merrill’s Bottle Shop near Sylacauga. The shops depended on the mercenary diggers just out to augment their income and the local collectors who wanted to add to their collections. Mobile actually had a number of African-American diggers who dug simply for the money they could get from selling things they dug. One such digger produced the only two known half-pint quasi historical flasks from a Mobile privy (C.T. Bond, New Albany, Miss., featuring a Pittsburghtype eagle on one side in yellow amber). Antique bottle “dealers” came on the scene, wheeling and dealing just in bottles. . .and they were quite savvy with their transactions as they knew the local collectors as well as the regional and national collectors, which gave them an edge and leverage with the rarer examples. Many of the founders of those early clubs have passed on and none of the clubs are still active. However, the Mobile Bottle Club continues to sponsor an annual show, making it the state’s longest running, continuous annual show on record. Five years ago, a small group of Birmingham die-hard diggers and collectors vowed to restart the shows in their area. After forming the Alabama Bottle Collectors, LLC, shows started up again in 2008 with a mere 60 tables. This year (2010) marked the third year of the show with 98 tables, so maybe we’re seeing yet another wave of collecting in the state. I hope so! AUTHOR’S NOTE Contributors to this story included James Smith, Glenn House and Jim Simmons.
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Group of Mobile sodas (L-R) S. Twelves, E. Carre, A. Bartunes, Horne & Tonsmeire, D. Palliser (Arthur Christain Patent bottle)
Jefferson Cty (B’ham) picture sodas (L-R) Bessemer Bottling Works (Bird) from Bessemer, Crown Bottling Works (Crown) from Ensley, Pratt City Bottling Works (Indian Head) from Pratt City.
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I want what’s dark. And I want what’s light. Plus I want what’s in the middle too. So there’s nothing else to do or say, But chase all the colors if I may. And the colors will be extraordinaire! Yes, they’ll sparkle and glimmer and people will stare. Teal, aqua, blue, yellow and green Olive and amber plus every shade in-between. Swirls, striations, imperfections and more, Whittled and crude with bubbles galore. Large, medium or small in size, It doesn’t really matter since color’s the prize. I’ll assemble them all slowly one by one. Until my ultimate goal is finally done. A rainbow worth its weight in gold, Candy to the eyes, a sight to behold. But alas I’m afraid I’ll never be able to pass, By these beautiful colored vessels of glass. I will chase to the end this form of bling Because in the world of jars, simply put, Color is King.
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The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Presents
EXPO 2012 Antique Bottle and Collectible Show Reno, Nevada
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At the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino Early Admission: Banquet: Dealer setͲup/Early admission: General Admission: General Admission:
Friday July 27th Friday, July 27th
Saturday, July 28th Saturday, July 28th Sunday, July 29th
Show Chairman: Marty Hall 15430 Sylvester Road Reno, NV 89521
Visitors Information: RenoͲTahoe Visitors Center (800) FORͲRENO www.visitrenotahoe.com
H:(775) 852Ͳ6045 – C:(775) 722Ͳ6065
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The Folger House Dig By Michael Dolcini n consecutive July days, my digging partner, Chuck Erickson, and I located and dug two very old privy pits at a vacant site in Sacramento, Calif. The site had been the truck parking and mechanic’s facility of a local dairy company. When the dairy closed its operations, the site was purchased with the intent of constructing dense “affordable” housing. The buildings were razed and the blacktop removed, leaving only the densely packed gravel beneath to deal with.The gravel proved to be a formidable obstacle, necessitating the need to use a slam probe to penetrate to the original soil beneath. I had obtained permission from the demolition contractor to search for buried glass, so we began what was to become a two-year endeavor on the site. Many pits were dug by several other diggers as well as by me and my diggin’ buddies. Unfortunately, not all of the thick concrete was removed from the site, with three large piles left that covered much of the targeted lots. As it turned out, the original contractor was not promptly paid by the developers and he left the property. The site remained in this condition until a renewed effort by the developer, and a new contractor, initiated a complete cleanup of the concrete residue and removal of some underground concrerte bulkheads. By the middle of the year, the site was clean and fresh soil was exposed for the first time in a half century. Only then we could probe the lot where research indicated that a very early residence had been built. The home was constructed for and owned by a local merchant, Francis R. Folger, and was the residence of he and his brothers, Robert and Benjamine. Later, Francis married and the brothers moved elsewhere. In subsequent years, the home became a boarding house, remaining such until it was demolished. A timeline of the residence and the subsequent privy pits excavated on the site of the long demolished Folger residence, northwest corner East and 11th Streets, Sacramento:
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1854 - Folger, Francis R, Hardware merchant, 249 J, NY*, no res stated 1855 - Folger, Francis, reporter “Union”, house E & 11th 1856 - Folger, Francis R, City reporter, Union, m 1 c**, res E & 11th; Folger, R.M., Crockery and Earthenware Merchant, res E & 11th 1857 - Folger, Benjamine, Merchant Crockery Store, 216 J & Folger, B.F., res E & 11th 1858 - Folger, F.R., Reporter Daily Union 1859 - Folger, Mrs Julia A., Primary School Teacher, res cor E & 11th; Folger, Frank R, Reporter, Daily Union, re cor E & 11th * NY, state of origin ** married, one child
Frank and Julia remained at this location through 1871, at which time they moved to 11th & I streets. There was no further mention of B.F, or, R.M. Folger at any location. Perhaps the crockery store was sold and they moved elsewhere. Regardless, this will aid in explaining the great amount of broken crockery and eathenware that was recovered from two subsequent privy pits. The earliest would have dated from their initial establishment of residency at that location, possibly as early as 1854, but absolutely by the following year. All glass bottles from that privy had large tubular open pontil scars, with the exception of an Englishmade food bottle and another European small utility. Several broken whale oil lamps were recovered from the fill that comprised the use layer. The second pit, also containing an amazing amount of broken crockery, would date from the years 1860 to 1865. This is evidenced by the glass bottles and other articles removed from the privy. Bottles with open pontil scars were mixed in with others that were blown by the snap case method, leaving a diagonal line across the base and no pontil scar. Interestingly enough, iron pontiled bottles were seen in both pits, primarily those which had been used as food containers; i.e., “berry” bottles and large cathedral designed “pickle” types. No soda bottles were found in either pit, but plenty of wine and liquor glasses, green ales, wine and champagne bottles, and a few smaller unembossed medical and spice bottles. Along with all the crockery were two early glazed jugs and shards of larger three-gallon butter churns. Both churns and shards were unmarked, but typical in both color and glaze, of early Sacramento pottery manufacturers. Among the more “unusual” items found in the second pit was a glass breast pump. It was entirely blown by mouth, without the benefit of a mold, and must have been assembled while the molten glass remained on the blowpipe. Blown
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in mold breast pumps are often found, but undamaged specimines of this style are seldom been seen out here. Drat! The photo of the pump has disappeared from my files. The following are photos of Pit No. 1, Circa 1855-60. On the way down. We always make an attempt to excavate all privies by first establishing the perimeter and digging as close to the edges as possible.
Here’s a undamaged sided utility. Thin “dime” lip, too
Finally, the beginnings of the use layer.
Nice big tubular pontil.
Unfortunately, as we all know, not all bottles are whole and undamaged.
Another, much larger utility.
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It’s a JAMMER. No shovel shall enter here, it is all tool work from here on out.
A fluted shoulder food.
Iron pontilled base.
Just another pontiled spice.
Neat OP fluted sauce.
And here’s the bottle that belongs to the IP base. A sweet “keystone” pickle that was the best bottle of the day
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Many smashed peppersauces and spices
It’s all over and time to “fill ‘er in.” Broken glass and crockery abounding. The old detector is used to check the spoils for hidden metallic objects. You never know when the odd cent or double eagle will show up. Keeping the broken objects in one spot helps in clean up, too. Busted stuff goes in first, followed by the clean soil. Residential pits are typically shallow around here, rarely exceeding eight feet. This one was 4’ X 4’ X 6 1/2’. Easy to dig soft loamy soil. That’s a good thing because the daytime temp was 100º by the time we finished and no shade. By the way, the Bennington spittoon in the foreground was perfect.
A few of the undamaged ones, a couple of iron-pontiled berry bottles and an open pontile spice.
Privy No 2, Circa 1860-65. Not too many photos of this one. Later and very sparse bottle wise.
“Bottle Killers.” Broken butter churns, wine and drinking glasses and window glass.
Bottles and Extras More broken crockery. There was a gallon size demijohn in the hole that didn’t have a chance. It’s amazing that this jug survived the crockery onslaught. The ovoid form and dark brown glaze is typical of early Sacramento pottery works. There were four of them on the outskirts of town at the time these privies were in use. This jug is very similar to those produced by the Pacific Pottery Works, located at N and 30th It is always a ton of fun to dig early privy pits, especially those that are loaded with goodies. Many 1850s and ‘60s pits are sadly lacking in the bottle department, probably due to the value of those for which a deposit was required. It’s also amazing how some folks could break so many dishes and other crockery objects, not to mention the windows. As evidenced by the amount of wine bottles, as well as the number of broken glasses, the Folgers must have been enjoying a “Sundowner” or two. My
kind of people, they left some interesting stuff for us to find 150 years later.
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The Whens and Whys of Insulator Collecting By Bill Haley
(EDITOR’S NOTE: Longtime insulator collector Bill Haley, of Chattanooga, Tenn., who is president of the Dixie Jewels of the Wire Insulator Club, shares his thoughts of collecting the glass and ceramic gems in the first of two parts about his hobby).
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f you are confused about what exactly an insulator is, look to the top of a power pole. Insulators are the things with electric wires attached to them, one insulator per wire. Sometimes several will be mounted on a wooden cross piece called a cross-arm. You will begin to notice insulators on each pole. Most are made of porcelain, plastics or composition materials now, but many materials with good electrical insulating qualities have been employed over the years. Glass was a favorite for many decades, but is rarely seen in service these days. The electric wire is attached to the insulator using a short length of wire called the “tie wire.” This wraps around the wire groove – an indentation near the middle of the insulator. Both ends of the tie wire are twisted around the main wire at both ends to hold it tight, An insulator’s purpose is to hold the wire away from the pole or cross-arm, preventing the wire from touching other objects and the electric current leaking to the ground. The bottle and insulator hobbies share certain things in common. First, both were manufactured strictly as utilitarian objects, used and then discarded when no longer needed. Luckily for us, they were usually made of materials that have stood up to the ravages of time and were produced in large enough quantities so many have survived to the present. From the viewpoint of a collector, they have great visual appeal. Many were produced when quality control as we know it today wasn’t a top priority. This gives them individuality and character. The fact that they were
Photo 1: CD214 shows an amber Telegraphos Nationales insulator from Mexico, a Folembray - nicknamed “gingerbread man” from France (not sure of the CD on this one), and a CD257 Hemingray-60 - nicknamed “Micky Mouse”, from the U.S. Good one to show both colors and different styles with an international mix. manufactured in a myriad of colors, shapes and embossings is a win-win situation for modern day admirers (See Photo 1) Bottles and insulators are usually small and easily displayed. Several shelves will sometimes suffice to house a collection. In contrast, if your collecting interest is vintage automobiles or locomotives, space considerations become more of a concern. Finally, they share historical significance. They help tell the story of evolving industry and innovation. Many collectors today enjoy research into old factory sites, manufacturing time-lines or patent processes. I’m certain the glassworkers and potters in factories of old would be both amused and amazed at how we fuss over them today. Thy would certainly be astounded at the prices we are willing to pay for uncommon and rare examples. BEGINNINGS OF THE INSULATOR HOBBY The peak of insulator usage occurred between 1860 and 1960 when millions of insulators were used on telegraph, telephone and power lines. It was not uncommon to see poles
sporting many cross-arms, each full of insulators supporting electrical wires. That began to change in the 1960s as old telegraph and telephone lines began to be replaced by thick bundled cable. Many thousands of miles of open wire were suddenly outdated and were dismantled to be sold as scrap metal. Sometimes, in rural areas the insulators and cross-arms, having fulfilled their function and no longer needed, were simply pitched to the ground and abandoned to the elements. In more urban areas, many went to dumps. Around the nation, many old signal and telephone lines along railroad rights-of-way still survive to the present day, a mere glimmer of what once was, but they, too, are rapidly vanishing. People realized these beautiful pieces of history were being lost at a rapid rate and they began saving and collecting the old insulators. This was the birth of the insulator hobby. In his book, Most about Glass Insulators, insulator hobby pioneer Marion Millholland reminisced about his introduction to insulators in this brief story titled “The Start.” He writes: “Many years ago, we drove past a home where a mountain-high pile of telephone cross-aems were just thrown
Bottles and Extras down. There was no effort made for a neat stack, some cross-ways, some diagonal, just a big random pile. The insulators were still on the cross-arms. With the afternoon sun setting, we looked through this stack of helter-skelter cross-arms and behold: most of the colors of a rainbow came to life. A more beautiful sight in colors would be difficult to find. That moment, I was really taken into the insulator hobby. The search for these beauties has never ceased.” In the 1960s and early 1970s, the hobby began to get organized. A few clubs were formed across the country and insulator swap meets and shows came into being. Books and price guides were published and some of the earliest guides had handdrawn pictures of individual insulators. A nationally distributed magazine for collectors, Crown Jewels of the Wire, was first published around 1970. It is still in publication and recognized as the best monthly periodical in the hobby. An organization of collectors, the National Insulator Association, followed a couple of years later. The NIA is now the chief governing body of the insulator hobby. Slowly but surely, collectors established contact
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Two CD145 “beehives” by W. Brookfield with other insulator enthusiasts and the fledgling hobby grew. Early on, it was realized that there was a need to categorize insulators in some manner to facilitate accurate communication between collectors. Woody Woodward, who remains active in the hobby, came up with a concept for Consolidated Design (CD) numbers based on the general shape of an insulator. He sequenced CD numbers based on the way insulators are used. Basically, small telegraph and telephone insulators have small CD numbers, large power insulators were given bigger numbers. It should
be noted that there are numerous exceptions to this basic rule and the CD numbering system has been subject to “growing pains” over the years. CD numbers are still being added for new discoveries and are adjusted to this day. Woody always has a final say on any changes that are made. Sometimes, instead of a brand new CD number, a decimal system is used. For example, a CD162.1 is a bit different that CD162, but still has a similar general shape. This system was a huge step forward for the budding insulator hobby. A similar system called the Universal Numbering system, shorted by collectors to U numbers, was eventually developed for porcelain insulators. Since this first installment is primarily about glass insulators, I’ll plan to get into that segment of the hobby in a future article. Next month: Learning the “shorthand” of the world of insulator collecting.
“Colored Signals”, depicts a Hemingray CD162 in orange amber, a CD161 California in deep plum, and a CD164 McLaughlin-20 in emerald green. All products of the U.S
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The Thomas McCandless Collection Auction 96 - Session III
ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ȱ ¢ȱ ǰȱ Ĵ ǰȱ ǰȱ ǰȱ ȱ Ĵ ¢ Auction Start Date: January 18, 2012 at 9:00 A.M. Eastern Time Auction Closing Date: February 1, 2012 at 10:00 P.M. Eastern Time For more photos and information about this auction series please go to www.hecklerauction.com/mccandless
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Membership Benefits
The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors cordially invites you to join a dedicated group of individuals and clubs who collect, study and display the treasured glass and ceramic gems of yesteryear. The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors (FOHBC) is a non-profit organization supporting collectors of historical bottles, flasks, jars, and related items. The goal of the FOHBC is to promote the collection, study, preservation and display of historical bottles and related artifacts and to share this information with other collectors and individuals. Federation membership is open to any individual or club interested in the enjoyment and study of antique bottles. The Federation publication, Bottles and Extras, is well known throughout the hobby world as the leading publication for those interested in bottles and “go-withs”. The magazine includes articles of historical interest, stories chronicling the hobby and the history of bottle collecting, digging stories, regional news, show reports, advertisements, show listings, and an auction directory. Bottles and Extras is truly the place to go when information is needed about this popular and growing hobby. In addition to providing strength to a national/international organization devoted to the welfare of the hobby, your FOHBC membership benefits include: • A full year subscription the Federation’s official bi-monthly publication, Bottles and Extras • One free ad per yearly membership of 60 words for use for “wanted” items, trade offers, etc. • Eligibility for a discount at FOHBC sponsored shows (National or EXPOs) towards “early admission” or dealer table rent • Access to a knowledge of the world of antique bottle collecting unavailable elsewhere • Contact information for clubs devoted to the study of historical bottles • A forum for your writings, articles, and editorials regarding the hobby • Participation in the nomination and selection of Federation members for the Honor Roll and Hall of Fame • Federation-sponsored writing, show poster, and newsletter-design contests • Free publication assistance for your book or manuscript • And more... We encourage Affiliated Bottle Club memberships by offering these additional benefits to your group: • Display advertising in Bottles and Extras at an increased discount of 50% • Insertion of your bottle club show ad on the Federation website to increase your show’s exposure • Links to your club website free of charge, as well as assistance with the creation of your website • Free Federation ribbon for Most Educational Display at your show • Slide programs for use at your club meetings • Participation in Federation sponsored insurance program for your club show and any other club sponsored activities Finally… We need your support! Our continued existence is dependent upon your participation as well as expanding our membership. The Federation is the only national organization devoted to the enjoyment, study, preservation, collection, and display of historical bottles. The FOHBC welcomes individuals who would like to contribute by running for Board positions or by sharing their expertise and volunteering their talents in other areas of interest such as contributions to our publications, assistance with the Federation’s National and EXPO shows, or through membership promotion. If you haven’t yet joined our organization, please do so and begin reaping the benefits. If you are already a member, please encourage your friends and fellow collectors to JOIN US!! For more information, questions, or to join the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, please contact:
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RENO EXPO 2012
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Great Displays
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Now that the holiday season is over we really need to focus on the FOHBC Reno Expo set for July 27th 29th at the fabulous Grand Sierra Resort and Casino. Reno, “The Biggest Little City in the World”!
The Biggest Bottle Show is at the Biggest Little City in the World! The Expo’s occur every four (4) years and promises an additional day Visit of bottle show related activities including displays, shoot-outs, seminars, the banquet, cocktail party and spectular bottles and go information. withs that will make this a tremendous show. The last Reno National was the finest show this bottle collector has EVER been too!
FOHBC.org for all related show
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Auburn, California 34th Annual 49er Bottle & Antique Show a Huge Success!
“The BEST of the WEST” Ferdinand Meyer V
Auburn Courthouse
This show in Auburn, California is called ÒThe Best of the WestÓ and I can truly say, it is a bottle and antique show that really fits the bill. Old Town Auburn is as charming of a place that could be and was decked out for the holiday season. The people are wonderful and the town is quaint and charming. What a great place to hold a bottle show. This is our third straight year to attend and is an essential, must attend show for us.
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Old Town Auburn
Our trip started out in Houston early Thursday morning. We landed in Sacramento around noon right in the middle of the Santa Ana winds which were the worst in 10 years we understand. It was all over the news. Fortunately, it did not affect our day as we quickly headed to Auburn to meet up with bottle friends and discussed, surpriseÉbottles! We eventually had a great dinner in town with more friends and discussed bottles though this time most of us were drinking margaritas too. Great weather provided for an incredibly robust turnout on Friday (02 December) for the 49er Historical Bottle Club set-up which lasted from 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm. Like Baltimore, this is a MAJOR period of excitement prior to the general show. As usual, people were greeting trucks and vans as they were pulling in to the property. Like most of you know, many deals start before a show. Being in the right place at the right time is essential. Saturday (03 December) was even more crowded with record breaking crowds that kept the dealers and tables busy. It was hard to navigate sometimes but this is fun. You can Ôget lostÕ in a crowd and be very discreet and go look at the tables and goods if you keep your head low. I found two (2) great bottles that donÕt really fit in my collection but I couldnÕt resist purchasing. Elizabeth also found some cool items, which seemed to be everywhere and on every table. This show is very organized and was spearheaded by Mike McKillop who runs a tight ship. No early set-up prior to noon and NO early departures for dealers near the end of the show. This is important so everyone gets as fair of a chance as possible to see and make deals on bottles. The food was great and there was even a cart circulating with food that you could buy at your table!
No Nonsense Dealer
Major Western Collectors
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London Jockey Clubhouse Gin Bottles
ÒOne of the highlights of the show was the two (2) displays. One was for London Jockey Clubhouse Gins (with embossed jockey & horse) while the other was for Wisters Clubhouse Gins.Ó
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One of the highlights of the show was the two (2) displays. One was for London Jockey Clubhouse Gins (with embossed jockey & horse) while the other was for Wisters Clubhouse Gins. It was fantastic to see all of these bottles together. I was really impressed, especially with the amber Jockey Club.
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By coincidence, Bob Kaiser recently dug a hole of primarily London Jockey Clubhouse and Wisters Clubhouse Gins. These bottles showed up in whole and in shards. The talk of the show! Wow did this generate excitement. Way to go Bob! Both the upper and lower buildings were loaded with bottles. While Whiskies seemed to dominate, there was a strong representation of Bitters, Insulators, Gins, Sodas and small antiques. Elizabeth and I, along with Jerry Forbes and Steve Bird, concluded our day Saturday at the Annual Festival of Lights Holiday Parade in Auburn. We love this parade. Even the animals including goats have lights on them! Recently Dug Bottles
Amber London Jockey Clubhouse Gin
Primarily Gin Shards
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Luggage Art at SAC Airport
Security Guard
Bottle Inspection
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dominate, there was a strong rep-
resentation of bitters bottles, insu-
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Dr. Townsend’s Sarsaparilla
top antiques.Ó
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The variety of table-top antiques and
glass items was truly amazing. We could have spent another day visiting each
table. Each time I circulated, I found
something new I liked. Elizabeth was
really excited because she found some bridle buttons, shot glasses and little toys.
Vintage Christmas Bulbs
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Picnic Flasks
Milk Bottles
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Buddy L Toy
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Bob Ferraro
Dar Furda
Mike McKillop
Bev Siri
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Auburn ÒGreat weather provided for an incredibly robust turnout on Friday (02 December) for the 49er Historical Bottle Club set-up which lasted from 12:00 noon to 7:00 pm. Like Baltimore, this is a MAJOR period of excitement prior to the general show. As usual, people were greeting trucks and vans as they were pulling in to the property. Like most of you know, many deals start before a show. Being in the right place at the right time is essentialÓ. We can see why they call Auburn, ÒThe Best of the WestÓ. Festival of Lights
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American Glass Work, Ltd. and American Glass Works, Pittsburgh Bill Lockhart, Pete Schulz, Beau Schriever, Carol Serr, and Bill Lindsey with Contributions by Jay Hawkins
Occasionally, we discover that the same mark was used by two (or more) glass houses – usually at different time periods. In this case, not only the initials – but the actual name – was identical: the American Glass Works. One firm was located in Pennsylvania, the other in Virginia and West Virginia. The AGW mark appears to have been used by both firms, although the slightly longer logo (AGWL) was used exclusively by the Pittsburgh plant. Pittsburgh Glass making began on the East Coast because that is where the people were. Gradually, the production of bottles and other glass products spread westward, fueled by two main issues: population and fuel (pun intended). In the 18th century, the bulk of the population lived near the coast, so there was no need for glass factories at any other location. As western migration increased, so did the need for glass products. Initially, the primary fuel source was wood. As the eastern woods became increasingly denuded around glass plants, the firms sought other sources. One of these, coal, was abundant in the areas not far from Pittsburgh, and natural gas was discovered in the vicinity. Pittsburgh became one of the major glass producing areas during the 19th century. Initially, the glass plants and companies were small, but, as population grew, and additional modes of transportation became available, both the numbers and size of the glass factories grew, especially after the Civil War. In 1803, for example, Pittsburgh factories produced $13,000 worth of glass. By 1850, however, that had risen to an even million dollars worth, and output climbed to $14,276,228 by 1902 (Hawkins 2009:xii). One of the larger producers of glass bottles was the American Glass Works.[1] 1
History American Glass Works, Pittsburgh (ca. 1865-ca. 1886) American Glass Works, Ltd., Pittsburgh (ca. 1886-ca. 1897) American Glass Works, Pittsburgh (ca. 1897-ca. 1903) The American Glass Works opened circa 1865 at 21st and Mary Streets. Page, Zellers & Co. (Benjamin Page, Theodore Zellers, and Sardis T. Duff) initially operated the company, but the firm was Page, Zeller & Duff the following year (1866). By 1876, the operating entity was Duff & Campbell (Sardis Duff and Terrence Campbell) and that lasted until circa 1878. Duncan, Campbell & Co. took over by 1879 and remained in control until 1883. T. Campbell & Co., emerged by 1884 and retained operations until circa. 1903. During this entire period, the firm specialized in the production of window glass (Hawkins 2009:2425). McKearin & McKearin (1941:611) identified the products of the plant as “window, picture, and photographic glass, looking glass, plates, rough plate glass, stained and enameled glass.” A split in the company apparently occurred at some point between 1884 and 1887, probably circa 1886. At that point, T. Campbell & Co. apparently dropped the American Glass Works name and continued making window glass at the 21st & Mary St. factory. We may never know the details, but a separate plant, located at Redmond Mills, Pennsylvania, “adjacent to Pittsburgh City Line on P.V. & C.R.R.” carried the name, the American Glass Works, Limited (Roller n.d.). The earliest known ad for the firm, issued in 1887, advertised bottles. Similar ads ran in at least 1890 and 1893 and illustrated Hutchinson bottles that were also available with “seals or corks” as well as a variety of beer bottle styles (Hawkins 2009:30; Roller n.d.; Toulouse
1971:43).For more information about this transition, see the Discussion and Conclusions section. In 1887, C.F. Leng was the president of the American Glass Works, Limited, with J.H. Miller as the secretary and treasurer (Roller n.d.).A limited partnership has one or more general partners who share liabilities, responsibility, and management of the company, just as in a regular partnership. The limited partner or partners, however, have specified limits on their control, liabilities, etc. In the U.S. (notably in the field of glass production), a limited partnership was frequently used when one partner financed a business, and the other partner managed the operation. The financier, for example, often wanted to sharply restrict his liability in return for leaving the management to his partner. The non-limited partner was happy to take the risks involved to be able to operate a business. It seems likely that Terrence Campbell was the limited partner (see Discussion and Conclusions section). On February 14, 1889, Charles Leng applied for a patent for a “BottleNeck-Finishing Machine” and received Patent No. 428,214 on May 20, 1890. Leng assigned half the patent to Christian F. Leng, the president of the American Glass Works, Limited, and apparently a relative. The invention appears to be a mechanized version of the hand-held finish tool that was in use during much of the second half of the 19th century. It consisted of a plug that maintained the inside diameter of the neck, while two dies fit around the outside to create the finish. The machine-driven plug and dies turned in opposite directions so that the bottle could not be accidently revolved in such a way as to spoil the finish. The American Glass Works used three of the finishing machines by 1901 (Roller n.d.). Leng’s machine was apparently successful. Jones (1968:9) quoted an October 1892 article from the Bottlers
For a more thorough historical overview – as well as individual glass house histories – see Hawkins (2009).
Bottles and Extras Gazette that stated: The West Virginia Flint Bottle Co., Huntington, West Virginia, glass manufacturers who began the business last season (1891) . . . a number of bottle blowing machines have been put in.The machines are the same as those that have been successfully operated by the American Glass - Works, of Pittsburgh, Pa. The emphasis probably came from Jones – not the Bottlers Gazette.[2] By 1897, the plant made “green and amber bottles and ‘Pittsburg flint’ [i.e., colorless glass] in one furnace of 6-pot capacity” and that same capacity continued in the listings until at least 1901 (National Glass Budget 1897a:7; 1897b:5; 1898:7; Roller n.d.). Also around 1897 (certainly by 1898), the limited partnership was over (forever removing the “Ltd.,” “Lim.,” or “Limited” from the company name). Leng continued to operate the business, and the plant made green and amber beer, soda, and mineral water bottles, as well as packers’ and preservers’ ware (Caniff 2007:6; Hawkins 2009:27; Roller n.d.; Toulouse 1971:43). The plant must have undergone another fairly major change ca. 1901 (Figure 1). Fruit jars were added to the list on the billheads, and the company was listed in the city directories under “Flint Prescription.” Although we will probably never know the full story, the end was near. Even though Toulouse (1971:43) stated that the plant remained listed in a 1905 directory, the factory had closed by April 1904. To complete the circle, Terrance Campbell purchased all the equipment from Leng. Ironically, there were no listings for T. Campbell & Co. in the glass business after 1903 (Hawkins 2009:31; Roller n.d.; 1996). Containers and Marks A.G.W.L. (ca. 1886-ca. 1897) The A.G.W.L. mark has been found on beer bottles, Hutchinson soda bottles, grooved-ring, wax-sealer fruit jars, and flasks. Although Toulouse (1971:43) – as well as later researchers, such as 2
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Figure 1 – Woodcut of the American Glass Works, ca. 1903 (Roller n.d.) Whitten (2011) and Von Mechow (2011) – identified the American Glass Works, Limited, as the user of the A.G.W.L. mark, these are better discussed by individual bottle types to determine variations or placement of the marks. In the case of beer bottles, we will even discuss the export beer style separately from other beer formats. All these bottles seem to have some attributes in common (aside from the initials). All in our sample (except fruit jars – see below) have the A.G.W.L. logo embossed horizontally across the center of the bases (or horizontally as heelmarks), although they may be in either a cup or post mold. The vast majority of these basemarks have clear punctuation – frequently slightly offset below the letters. There are two photos from eBay that appear to be lacking punctuation, but that is not otherwise confirmed (except on fruit jars). Previously, we had only discovered tooled finishes on beer bottles beginning ca. 1890 (Lockhart 2007:56). However, all photos we have seen of beer bottles with A.G.W.L. marks show no indication of any applied finishes on bottles with the A.G.W.L. mark.Admittedly, this is based on a limited sample. As noted in the history section, Leng applied for a patent for his machine to make tooled finishes in February 1889. Although he did not receive his patent until the next year, he could have begun use of the machine as early as the beginning of the company in 1886/1887, and that
Jones was trying to make a different point, one irrelevant to this discussion.
may even have been the reason for the founding of the company. An ad by the American Glass Works, Limited, in the June 1892 Gazette noted the factory as “Manufacturers of All Kinds of High Pressure Ware. . . such as Beers, Sodas, Minerals and Apollinaris Bottles, which we make in Green [i.e., aqua], Ruby [i.e., amber], Imported Green and Flint Colors.” They added, “We have a large selection of Stock Moulds, which are provided with plain plates, upon which we can insert your name and address at a very slight cost, thus saving you the cost of a mould.” The company offered “one size stopper holes only unless otherwise ordered. No Leakers” (Putnam 1965 – Figure 2). An identical ad appeared the following year (Hawkins 2009:30). Champagne, Porter, and Weiss Beer Bottles (ca. 1886-ca. 1897) The 1892 and 1893 ads from the American Glass Co., Limited, illustrated a row of 10 bottles at the bottom. These were identified as beer bottles and shown with plate molds. Most of these were Champagne style, but there were also Porter and Weiss Beer bottles in the drawing. These bottles were almost certainly made during the entire period of the “Limited” company. Numerous archaeological studies and collectors’ books have cited the A.G.W.L. mark on the bases of beer bottles, including Herskovitz (1978:8), Kroll (1972:97), Mobley (2010), and
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Rigby (n.d.). The mark was consistently embossed horizontally across the center of beer bottle bases in our eBay sample (Figure 3). Some of these bottles were used by soda bottlers as well (e.g., Peters 1996:112, 125). In contrast to the basemarks from eBay, Von Mechow (2011) recorded 38 beer bottles, mostly used in the Midwest and Baltimore, although a few were from far western locations. All but one of these had AGWL heelmarks (the other, of course, was a basemark). Export Beer Bottles (ca. 1893-ca. 1897)
Works, Limited, made only amber export bottles during the ca. 1893-1896 period. Although this is speculation, the timing is interesting. The U.S. underwent a
Bottles and Extras “great” depression beginning in 18921893. Since the American Glass Works, Limited, specialized in embossed beer and Hutchinson bottles, that may have been one of the areas where breweries and soda bottlers reduced costs. Paper labels were cheaper and provided more information. Meanwhile, the American West was booming, and the big market was for export beer bottles.[3] Hutchinson Bottles (ca. 1886-ca. 1897) The 1892 and 1893 ads make it clear that the American Glass Works, Limited, made bottles with actual Hutchinson stoppers – instead of the later imitations. Unlike A.G.W.L. beer bottles, these had the fully punctuated mark embossed on heels as reported by Fowler (1986:27, 237), Miller (1999:15; 2008:40), and Peters (1996:47-48, 55, 63, 82) as well as the ones we have seen on eBay. These heelmarks appeared on either the front or reverse of the bottles (Figure 5). All date ranges given by all
Export beer bottles were noticeably missing from the 1892 and 1893 ads. They also seem to be missing from early contexts. Table 1 lists six excavations that contained primarily export beer bottle fragments from 1880-1890s contexts; only two of them – the ones with the latest occupations – had amber export beer bottle fragments Figure 2 – June 1892 ad for American with A.G.W.L. basemarks. While there Glass Works bottles (Putnam 1965) are only fragments in both contexts, all identifiable amber beer bottles in the assemblages were export types. Herskovitz (1978:8) also noted a “1” or “2” accompanying the basemark, and Lockhart (2009; 2011) only found the number “1” at Fort Stanton (Figure 4). To place these frequencies in perspective, there were only five A.G.W.L. basemarks found at Fort Stanton, compared with 49 marked C&CoLIM (Cunninghams & Co., Lim.); 44 with DOC (D.O. Figure 3 – A.G.W.L. on base of Figure 4 – A.G.W.L. on base of export Cunningham) basemarks; and 28 with champagne beer bottle (eBay) beer bottle (Fort Stanton) FHGW (Frederick Hampson Glass Works). At Fort Bowie, Table 1 – Archaeological Contexts for Amber A.G.W.L. Basemarks there were nine with Location Date Range # Bases Citations the A.G.W.L. logo; 40 ca. 1880-ca. 1886 0 Lockhart & Olszewski 1994:39 with C&CoLIM; 49 San Elizario, Texas with DOC; and 129 Fort Selden, New Mexico 1865-1877; 1880-1888 0 Wilson & Caperton 1994:56-57 with FHGW. These Fort Laramie, Wyoming 1849-1890 0 Bottle Research Group 2009* small numbers in the 0 Wilson 1981:113-114 distribution patterns Fort Union, New Mexico 1863-1891 1862-1894 9 Herskovitz 1978:8 may indicate a late Fort Bowie, Arizona arrival of the brand. Fort Stanton, New Mexico 1855-1896 5 Lockhart 2009:128 This suggests that * No written report, but we found no A.G.W.L. marks when we examined the collection. the American Glass 3 Export beer bottles were designed in 1873 especially for “export” to the western territories, Central, and South America. Although other styles were and still are used, the export bottle rapidly became the standard for the brewing industry.
Bottles and Extras of these researches fell easily within the ca. 1886-1897 span for the use of this mark. As noted above, Champagne beer bottles were also used by soda bottlers (e.g., Peters 1996:112, 124-125). The shapes of the “beer bottles” in the 1893 ads are virtually identical with some of the soda bottle styles offered by the Illinois Glass Co. in the 1903 catalog. Hutchinson bottles were also used for both soda and beer. Flasks (ca. 1886-ca. 1897) The A.G.W.L. mark was also embossed horizontally across the long axis of the bases of amber and aqua flasks. All we have seen (mostly eBay photos) were strap-sided flasks with two-part (double-ring) finishes. The bases in our sample were all cup bottom, and none of the flasks had side embossing (Figure 6). Fruit Jars (ca. 1896-ca. 1897) Toulouse (1969:16; 1971:43) attributed this mark (with “PITTS PA”) to the American Glass Works, Ltd. (Pittsburgh) and showed it in the form of AGWL in a downward arch above PITTS PA in an upward arch (Figure 7). Innes (1974:178) attributed the A.G.W.L. Pitts. Pa. on a “preserving jar” to “the mysterious Arsenal Glass Works.” Roller (1983:7) described the same jar and added: It seems likely that these jars were made by the American Glass Works, Ltd., of Pittsburgh, who advertised fruit jars among their wares in the 1880s and 1890s. But, the initials could stand for either Arsenal Glass Works, Lawrenceville (part of Pittsburgh) or Aetna Glass Works, Lawrenceville. Both of these works advertised fruit jars during the 1860s, with the latter works listing “Grooved Ring Wax Sealing” jars. Creswick (1987a:4) showed a drawing of a grooved-ring, waxsealer fruit jar with “A.G.W.L. (arch)
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/ PITTS, PA. (inverted arch)” embossed on the base (Figure 8). She dated the jar ca. 1866-1880 and attributed it to the American Glass Works. All of the jars in our sample (eBay and Jay Hawkins collection) had a smaller “A” in “PA” and either lacked punctuation or had very weak punctuation in the mark. See the Discussion and Conclusions section for our position on these jars. AGW (ca. 1897-ca. 1901) Peters (1996:9) dated the AGW mark from ca. 1893 to 1905 and attributed it to the American Glass Works (Pittsburgh). He illustrated 10 Figure 5 – A.G.W.L. heelmark on examples of bottles (e.g., 1996:22, 40, Hutchinson bottle (eBay) 112, 124-125, 128, 132, 192, 200) with the AGW mark, all Hutchinsons except for two Weiss Beer bottles (p. 112, 124-125).Date ranges he presented for the bottles and associated companies fit within the ca. 1897-1901 date range we have proposed.Von Mechow (2011), however, listed six Hutchinson bottles, a single bottle with a Matthews Gravitating Stopper, and 16 beer bottles, all with the AGW mark. Although there is little question that crown-finished Figure 6 – A.G.W.L. soda bottles (and several other on base of a strap-sided flask (eBay) container types) were made by the American Glass Works at Richmond, Virginia, and Paden City, West Virginia (see Discussion and Conclusions and the section on the “other” American Glass Works), Peters presents strong evidence that the AGW mark continued to be used by the Pittsburgh American Glass Works after the “Limited” period. Since all of these bottles were used by Wisconsin soda bottlers, the likelihood of a manufacture at Pittsburgh is much greater than in much more distant Virginia and West Virginia plants. Of greater import, Peters (1996:20, 92, 94, 113, 124-125) listed two examples of soda bottlers Figure 7 – AGWL / PITTS, PA on wax-sealer who used Hutchinson bottles with fruit jar base (Courtesy of Jay Hawkins) both AGWL and AGW logos and
Jay Hawkins contends that the Dr. Hostetter’s Bitters bottles with AGW basemarks were made in Pittsburgh. See the section on the American Glass Works, Virginia and West Virginia, for a complete discussion. 4
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one where the bottler had both marks that we can ascribe to the Pittsburgh on identical Weiss Beer bottles. plant after the transition away from Discussion and Conclusions These companies were in business, the limited partnership ca. 1897. The Companies and Plants respectively, during the periods of The factory seems to have limited its Other researchers have fallen into 1896-1910, 1877-1900, and 1888- production, then moved away from soda what we call the “first hypothesis” 1898, all spanning the important trap when dealing with the American 1896-1898 transition period between Glass Works. This is familiar to the “Limited” company and the later archaeologists.When the first researcher firm. Of even greater interest are three makes a definitive statement, whether other Wisconsin soda bottlers (Peters or not it stands up in the face of 1996: 200-201, 112, 124-125) that used evidence, almost everyone begins at identical bottles with both AGWL and that point and steadfastly refuses to AGW marks. These bottles have the look at alternatives. The best original identical shape and same plate mold research on manufacturer’s marks – the – the only difference is the lack of the books and articles written by Julian “L” on one logo. Harrison Toulouse – is often the biggest All examples we have seen had stumbling block to full understanding. heelmarks, and at least one had full While the epic works of Toulouse punctuation (Figure 9). Von Mechow (1969; 1971) were without parallel (2010), however, listed three Hutchinson in their time, he simply lacked the bottles with the AGW mark from such resources available today. He relied diverse locations as Philadelphia, Lead on a great deal of hearsay, and he Figure 8 – Drawing of AGWL jar City, South Dakota, and Yazoo City, made inferences that he reported as and base (Creswick 1987:4) Mississippi. He recorded the AGW fact. The main problem mark on the base of the with Toulouse was his South Dakota Hutchinson typographical errors, bottle. Since Hutchinson especially in the realm bottles with the AGWL of numbers.In at least logo in our sample were two places, his dates are used at least as far away incorrect by a century; as Tampa, Florida, the decade differences diverse distribution is not are common; and he surprising. frequently gave two or Whitten (2011) noted even three dates for the Figure 9 – AGW heelmark (Courtesy of Jay Hawkins) that “various bottles that same occurrence – often date after 1880 (such as on the same page – almost certain hutchinson sodas, certainly caused by typos and aqua coffin or ‘shoofly’ (Lockhart 2004). flasks) do carry ‘A.G.W.’ In this case, Toulouse (no L).” Although we have (1971:43) connected T. recorded a “Warranted” Campbell & Co. to the flask with the “A.G.W.” American Glass Works mark and a three-digit (correctly), then made the number (indicative of the assumption (incorrectly) that Richmond plant) and have the American Glass Works, discussed picnic flasks that Limited, was a continuation Figure 10 – AGW on base of a medicinal bottle (eBay) may have been associated of the same factory. As with the southern noted in the history section, company, we have not observed the bottles entirely, shifting to prescription the two plants were at different locations, flasks described by Whitten. If they bottles ca. 1901. It is possible that some and the American Glass Works name was lack the accompanying numbers, they prescription bottles were embossed apparently disassociated with Campbell very well may have been made by the with A.G.W. basemarks. The only from some point after 1884, probably ca. Pittsburgh factory. example we have seen from an eBay 1992. Although not everyone agrees,[4] auction could have been made at either we have found no other bottle types Pittsburgh or Virginia (Figure 10).
Bottles and Extras A.G.W.L. Although there is virtually no question that the American Glass Works, Limited, made the beer/soda bottles, Hutchinson bottles, and strap-sided flasks, the identification of the AGWL mark on grooved-ring, wax-sealer fruit jars is not so easy to place. As noted in the Containers and Marks section, both Innes (1974:178) and Roller (1983:7) suggested that the fruit jar mark could have been used by the Arsenal Glass Works (or Aetna Glass Works), both at the same factory, located at Lawrenceville, a section of Pittsburgh, annexed to the larger city in 1868. Lawrenceville was selected as the home of the Allegheny Arsenal (or Pittsburgh Arsenal) due to its proximity to the river – hence the “Arsenal” name for the glass house. Lawrenceville, in this interpretation, provided the “L” at the end of the logo (see Lockhart 2010). Ads cited in Roller (n.d.) list fruit jars for the American Glass Works, Limited, from 1887 to 1901. The Arsenal/Aetna situation was much more complex.The original operating firm advertised a variety of bottle and vials but did not specifically mention fruit jars. However, there is a vast empty space in our knowledge until the William F. Modes ad of 1869 (Hawkins 2009:12; Roller 1996). Only the 1869 ad (Aetna Glass Works) specified the Victor, Triumph, and “Grooved Ring” fruit jars. Roller (1983:362) noted that “TRIUMPH” was offset from “GROOVED RING” by separate quotation marks in Modes’ 1869 ad (which Roller reproduced). These jars were made in a three-piece mold and had a distinct shoulder that tapered up to a grooved-ring finish. “TRIUMPH / No. 1 (or No. 2)” was embossed on the shoulder. Creswick (1987:209) added a “No. 3” and illustrated the jars, also citing the Aetna Glass Works as the maker. The only Victor jar, shown in both Roller (1983:371-372) and Creswick (1987:214) was patented in 1899 and 1900 – far too late to be the jar in the Aetna ad. The shape of the Victor jar
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Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters bottles (although some Pittsburgh collectors question this identification), and possibly prescription bottles – all embossed A.G.W. on the bases – as we will demonstrate in a future article. Acknowledgments Our thanks to Doug Leybourne for permission to use the Alice Creswick drawings.
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Favorite Boyhood Soda Mohr Brothers Beverages by Mike Elling
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ohr Brothers Beverages: I was raised a poor country boy in rural northwest Ohio, between two railroad villages of Swanton and Whitehouse. After federal sugar rationing put into place during World War II was lifted in January 1948, every corner grocery store contained a drink cooler full of exotic and colorful soft drinks from all the bottlers nearby. Bottled in Toledo, Ohio, was my favorite: Mohr Brothers Cream Soda! It was a clear soda with a blue cap. Sweet soda water laden with cane sugar from Cuba. Our family dentist was delighted, though in reality he threatened me with extinction once every year. I reasoned after reviving from the Novocain afterward that if I was really going to die, I would just as soon hurry up and do it. The cream soda would make it worth the while! One of my boyhood tasks was to deliver fresh eggs in the wire basket of my J.C. Higgins bicycle. They were in special paper cartons that could take the shock of all the gravel roads that I lived on. I broke the eggs only when my bike overturned from a sliding miscalculation! We charged 50 cents for
Mohr Brothers Family Soda During ACL Golden Age (Coutesy of eBay)
home delivery whenever I could arrive without incident. Of that half-dollar I got to keep 10 cents. With one dime, I could buy two cream sodas at Tommy Adams’ Grocery Store up the old toll road called the Chicago Pike. Originally a Typical Mohr Brothers Crown Cap. Double through road Entendres or Environmental Responsibility? from Toledo (Coutesy of Retro Planet.Co.) to Chicago built of planks, by the 1940s it was a main concrete thoroughfare. One dime, that is, if I already had the two returnable deposit 7-ounce bottles. During those days, Americans were already preparing to be a throw-away society. I often found two or three soda bottles discarded along the roads I was biking. There were hundreds of beer bottles lying everywhere, too, or so it seemed, but I was prohibited from picking those up and turning them in by my mother, a fierce prohibitionist whose own mother had founded a chapter of the Temperance Society. She promised to kill me if I ever entered any of the honky-tonk beer joints. “Dark dens of sin,” she promised me. Stores gave you 2 cents for the soda bottles, but the joints only gave 1 cent for the beers anyway, so it was no big loss, I figured. I left the beers to be picked up by all the DPs. Today, I still make it a habit to drink cream soda from returnable bottles. I use CLEMs bottled today by Excel Bottling Company in Breese, Illinois. It’s pretty good, but I still think old Mohr Brothers was better, especially back in the 1940s. My dentist today no longer threatens extinction, I keep him too busy to do so!
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From Wine to Blood: The Story of Charles Axt and his Catawba Wine By Paul Chance
Most of us who dig bottles resulted in erosion of cotton realize that each bottle or artifact farmers’ lands and farmers were we find has a direct link to our in desperate need of a cash crop. past. The majority of the bottles Axt, speaking in broken English, are plain and unembossed and was able to convince farmers little information can be obtained that he could plant and supervise from them. However, when they a quarter of an acre vineyard on have names on them, they can their land, tend it for three years open doors to the past and tell a for a fee of $50 a year, and at whole story, How many times the end of that time deliver 350 have we said to ourselves, “If gallons of wine. After five years, only they could talk,” or “think of he said, an acre thus treated would the stories they could tell!” yield 2,500 gallons of wine. This story starts with my He began management of acquisition of a bottle that turned vineyards in the rolling hills of up in a flea market in Savannah, the Piedmont without startup Georgia. Reportedly dug in capital. Georgia’s vineyards Savannah, the bottle is a “hock” contained the usual southern wine style with an unusually grapes such as the Herbemont large, crude flared top. Hock and Lenoir, but Axt was partial wine bottles are usually of no to the Catawba variety. He began interest to me, but this one was to master the English language a bit different. Embossed on its as well as his wine-making. He base was CHARLES AXT’S established vineyards near Dalton CATAWBA.” in north Georgia as well as in A Google search quickly South Carolina and Alabama. His turned up quite a bit of information home vineyard would have been Paul Chance displays his flea market find. (Photo about Charles Axt and his located along the western edge by Bea Baab) Catawba Wines. But after a 2-1/2of Crawfordville north and along hour drive from my home near the Georgia Railroad where the Savannah to Crawfordville, Georgia, community called “Friendship” is visiting the town’s historical society located today. and meeting Robert Hendrick proved In 1855, he won a silver cup for to be intriguing. He is past president his Catawba Wine at the Atlanta Fair. of the Crawfordville Historical And according to an article in Trends Society and serves on its board of in Southern Agriculture, 1840directors. 1860, during the early 1850s “Axt According to notes discovered entered into a contract with planters in the Crawfordville Deed Book F, in South Carolina, Georgia and the Rhineland-born Axt emigrated Alabama to teach the skill necessary to Ohio in the 1840s, accompanied for establishing the new enterprise. by a young man he called his son. Securing expert assistants, his Axt moved to Augusta in 1848, then success exceeded expectations. By settled in Crawfordville where he 1857, Axt’s ‘Still Catawba’ wines established a five-acre vineyard. By had become well known in local 1869, the vineyard had grown to 264 markets. Sealed in specially made Here’s a closeup of the base of the hock acres. hock bottles bearing attractive labels, wine embossed Charles Axt Catawba. At that time, the monoculture this wine of 1857 vintage sold in (Photo by Bea Baab) of destructive farming practices Cincinnati two years later at a higher
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price than some of the famous Ohio wines – a fact which brought some degree of consternation to Ohio growers.” An advertisement in The New York Times on November 28, 1856: The Belgian horticulturist Louis E. Berckmans, who had migrated from New Jersey to Augusta, Georgia to operate a nursery there, described the prospect: “In places where no corn or rye will grow, I have seen many a goodly acre covered with Catawba and Warren grapes, and yielding from four hundred to six hundred dollars, in soils abandoned as unfit for every other cultivation. South Carolina and Georgia will soon awake The bottle rests in front of crude gravestone marking the final resting place of Charles Axt. (Photo by Paul Chance) to this new enterprise and acres upon acres of land wines. This was complicated because summoned a neighbor, Benjamin F. not worth five dollars are going to be the same grape grown in a different area Moore. Only other person in the house converted into vineyards to supply the would produce a different taste. The was Henry Axt, a natural son who union with wine, equal if not superior convention had to not only distinguish had joined his father on the trip from to any Hock or Madeira.” between “Catawba” and “Warren,” but Germany and who was legitimized Some time in the 1850s, Axt began also provide the place name, brands or by adoption. Henry was found in a advertising in the Southern Cultivator, private names, if needed. distraught state, “walking to and fro a semi-monthly magazine founded In the same year, Georgia produced in his room,” which adjoined that of by J.W. and W.S. Jones and devoted 27,000 gallons of wine. Just five years his father. Benjamin Moore came and to Southern agriculture. The editor of after the Civil War in 1870, production later swore, “I found Mr. Axt lying the magazine referred to Axt as “the was reduced to 21,000 gallons. The on his bed near the center on his back itinerant grape missionary.” war had a detrimental effect on wine with his head on the pillow, his hands Wine mania” was a popular production as it did all agriculture in on his breast as if asleep. I felt of Mr. movement in the South with large and the South, but it did not make it extinct. Axt and found him warm. His throat small vineyards being developed to Love of wine making revived during the seemed to be cut to the bone (he had compete with Northern vineyards. A post-war years, but it would take many bled copiously) and the blood had run general convention of wine growers years for it to regain its popularity that off the bed into a gallon jug which was met in a Baptist church in Aiken, South was enjoyed before the conflict. near half full. There was an indentation Carolina in August 1860. The group Tragedy struck during the early on his scull (sic) about 3 inches above became the Southern Wine Growers’ morning of February 11, 1869 when the left eye, as if done with a hammer Association, presided over by James Axt was brutally murdered in his bed or small ax.” Hammond, a former South Carolina in his home, which stood on the edge of The hatchet was later discovered governor. Crawfordville on the Lexington road. on the front “plaza.” It had been One of the issues was to determine His body was discovered (still rubbed with dirt to rid it of bloodstains, exact botanical descriptions of grape warm) by his Negro servant and A coroner’s jury convened later varieties and the naming of different housekeeper, Susan Ann Moore. She that day. Foreman Joseph F. Nelson
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Bottles and Extras found that Axt “came to his death by someone unknown to us feloniously and maliciously striking him on the forehead and cutting his throat with some heavy and sharp instrument. And we further find that Henry Axt either committed the fould (sic) deed, or was accessory to it. (From the records of Taliaferro County Superior Court, 1869). Henry was brought to trial, but was cleared largely through the legal counsel of Alexander H. Stephens, who had been vice president of the Confederate States. Also suspected was the Negro woman, “Edy Ann,” who had borne Charles Axt four mulatto children, but she was never brought to trial. The murderer was never found. It is worth noting that in the deed book Henry Axt deeded a;; 300 acres pf his father’s land to Alxander Stephens on Feb. 24, 1869. It wasn’t commonly known where Charles Axt was buried, but Wiley Jones says in his book, Rest in Peace: A Cemetery Census of Taliaferro County (Wilkes Publishing Co., Washington,
Ga., 1984, Page 82), that there are reputed to be two unmarked Axt graves at the western end of Crawfordville behind and across the road from the Georgia Wood Preserving Company. Mr. Jones said that a stone marked “Axt,” but with no dates, was found when the census of the Crawfordville cemetery was done. I was able to locate Axt’s tombstone. One night, I couldn’t sleep, so I got up and started researching more about Charles Axt. I thought that if he died in Crawfordville, his grave shouldn’t be too difficult to find. He should be buried either on the property, or in the local cemetery. A quick Google search placed him in the Baptist cemetery in plot g20j! The two graves were located in a wooded area of Crawfordville down a dirt road near the railroad. The C. Axt tombstone is roughly cut and the name hand-carved. The graves are outlined by bricks as markers around the square area of each body. There is a small iron rail fence around the two graves. Could
The Deland M-T Bottle Collectors Club Presents Their 42nd Anniversary Antique Bottle & Insulator Show Location is SR44 & I-4 at the Volusia County Fairgrounds (Exit 118) Deland, Florida, March 16 & 17 , 2012. Dealer set up 1-7 PM Friday. Fee for early buyers Friday 4-7 PM and before 8 AM Saturday is $20. Regular show Admission and parking for all buyers on Saturday 8 AM – 3 PM is FREE. (160 Sales Tables will be available for this show) For Show Information Please Contact: Show Chairman: Brian Hoblick, P. O. Box 2015, De Leon Springs, Florida 32130. EMAIL: hoblick@ aol.com, PH: 386-804-9635 Asst. Show Chairman: Dwight A. Pettit Jr. EMAIL: pettit9119@bellsouth.net Phone: 386-575-0293 Club website for further information: www.m-tbottleclub.com
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63 these graves be those of Edy Ann or her sons that Axt fathered? Henry Axt’s grave was not found. I placed the hock wine bottle on the grave and took a few photos. It was a chilling experience, I’ll admit.. Questions arise: What became of the silver cup he won at the Atlanta Fair, the murder weapon, and other physical evidence of his existence? What was the motive for the murder? No one will ever know. SOURCES: A History of Wine in America from the beginnings to prohibition, Vol. I, by Thomas Pinney Deed Book F, Pages 593-594, Taliaferro County, Georgia, furnished by Robert Hendrick Deed Book F, Pages 580-581, Taliaferro County, Ga., furnished by Robert Hendrick
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OUR 42ND ANNUAL SHOW (Or Hints on Putting on a Show) By Linda Buttstead, Secretary Suncoast Antique Bottle Collector’s Club
Well, it’s come and gone again and we get a short reprieve from all the work involved putting on our show at The Manatee Convention Center. It was basically the same work as last year, and I started in June again, planning, writing ads, designing the hand out cards, doing a “Letter from the President,” applications, contacting hotels for reduced rates for dealers and out of town visitors, and more. Doing one thing here or there, saves time as the show draws closer. Something to take advantage of, if you are at all computer savvy, is the free posting of your information online. First, write up a small description for your show, then check the papers in your city (and surrounding cities) for their online calendars. Do the same for the radio stations and the television stations. All you have to do, is copy/ paste the short description onto the calendars. Now, some TV stations might use the same service (for example Z-Vents) but regardless, post to it for every station—it gives more food for the search engines if someone is doing a search for your show. Newspapers are another gold mine (besides their online calendars). A lot of daily papers have a small magazine type insert that lists all the events for the upcoming weekend (it may even be called the Weekender). You can use your previous description for submission to these or elaborate as you may have more space. Make sure you start looking in plenty of time to submit to the papers, no less than 3 weeks out from your event. It’s worth a phone call to find out who to send the submission to, the fax number or email address, or even a mailing address. For just a little bit of extra work, you get some free (FREE) publicity. Our show is held in Manatee County , Florida. I submit information to the Bradenton Herald, the Sarasota
Herald Tribune, the St. Petersburg Times and the Tampa Tribune. I’ve tried other papers, such as the Miami paper. but they let me know it was too distant to put in their paper. It can’t hurt, if you want to do some poking online, you can also find some antique or travel magazines from Canada that might just be willing to mention your show in their Travel Section! If it’s FREE don’t turn it down. The more you spread the word, the more you describe what an Antique Bottle Show is really like, the more folks you will have come through the doors. This year we had 160 tables full of all sorts of goodies, and manned by some of the most fantastic people we know. I will be the first to admit I am not great at names, so it’s good to make the name tags for dealers, and it sure helps the folks that come through the doors looking for the special bottle. I make signs for the doors, and use two large posters that I created to put by the admission table with photos I took from various activities, also a single page, double sided information/ application sheet for anyone interested in a tidbit of antique bottle information and/or joining the club. One thing our club has at the show is a door prize drawing, usually four or five items, and we don’t require the winners to be present. At the entrance where admission is paid, there is a box with forms to fill out, names/addresses/ phone numbers/emails addresses and it also states we do NOT sell or give out their information (lots of folks won’t sign up if they think you will do that). There are three places to check BY EMAILS ONLY: if 1) you want a show notice only; 2) you get 3 Free Newsletters by email only; or 3) you are interested in joining. If you charge admission, maybe a wife of a member can help out at the Admission table. Make sure they have enough change, and they know the
Bottles and Extras details of mentioning the door prize form. This is important as it’s not only for your door prize but also for being able to send out show notices by email (free advertising). And if you really want to notify everyone who entered, but don’t have their email address, you can make a list of names, and call them, or send a postcard notice about the next show. The good thing about postcard notices is if you mention they will get an extra drawing entry by using the postcard, it will tell you if it’s worth the effort on the postcards for the following year. The club bought signs to put out along the road last year, plus we put them out this year and went around and collected them at the show’s end. Just a word of caution, check with Code Enforcement in your area about putting out roadside signs. Our rules had changed for this year. A nice thing about using the Manatee Civic Center is a huge digital display sign with running advertisements for the activities that were happening there. Our show advertisement ran for three weeks last and this year. It started out with a variety of colored bottles lined up, then our show name, the dates, and then three rolling signs with items that could be found inside. Folks are learning that there is a lot more to antique bottle shows, and that’s what draws them in, especially if they’ve never been to one/ We ordered pizzas again this year (45), and also supplied soda, coffee and water, all for the dealers. After all the dealers had gotten their fill, I announced that the early buyers were more then welcome to come help themselves and they sure did. A husband and wife commented on how much they liked our show and were amazed that we also let the early buyers partake of the goodies. This year we had several T-shirts that I designed for the club and for sale at the show, and they were also used for door prizes. It’s amazing the response you get from the winners. First I tried calling them as I needed sizes, but I had to leave voice mails which included our club email address. Most of the winners responded by email and all were tickled they won a shirt. One fellow said he
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Bottles and Extras had bought some nice bottles at the show (last year also), and was tempted to buy a shirt but he resisted. He said he NEVER wins anything and he was so pleased. Another winner stated he didn’t expect anything but he was so very pleased and would wear the shirt proudly. I could go on about the responses but you get the gist, it’s so nice to hear reports from the people who pay to get in. It’s very important is to have club members willing to volunteer. If they aren’t good on a computer, then ask them to volunteer to 1) make coffee and 2) make sure it doesn’t run out. Volunteers are needed to help keep the pizza boxes open and removed when empty and napkins and plates supplied. Make sure you buy soda in cans and put them in coolers full of ice, after the dealer gets their pizza—just point at the coolers for the soda, they are gifted folks and will know what to do! Ask for helpers to tape up signs (that go on the doors) or put them up roadside. And if anyone can use a computer, maybe someone can keep in touch with the show chairman and create name tags for the dealers. Any little detail that can be taken care of by someone else, will help free you to help the dealers come set-up time. During the time before the show, when you visit antique shops, pick up free copies of antique advertising newspapers. Place ads in there, even if it’s only for the month before your show, make mention of the variety of items at “bottle shows.”
Design 4x6 postcards to be placed in antique shops starting about 3 months before the show. We have 5,000 twosided cards printed in full color (look for businesses online that will do it inexpensively) and distribute them at meetings for members that live in different cities. They take them (about 25) to each shop, and put them with the other notices there. If anyone sets up at a flea market, put them on the table along with the antique bottles and if anyone shows an interest in the bottles, give them a card! Talk about the show, be enthusiastic about your hobby, ask them if they have any special interests and so on. Antique shows may have a table for other shows and sales to place their flyers, cards, etc., so make sure you take advantage of these locations to. What better place to pique the interest of folks that are more likely to come to your show. Don’t be a lump on a chair, the more you talk with folks, the better it is. Definitely place ads in the magazines devoted to bottle collecting! It reminds folks that the show is coming up soon. You can get a display ad at a reasonable price, and if your club bank doesn’t allow for much paid advertising, they will run a line ad for your show at no cost. Some of the antique advertising papers will do that also. Oh! One thing you can’t forget is to post your event on Craig’s List under events for your state/city area. It’s free and runs for a considerable amount of time. It can be tricky. Make sure you sign up with Craig’s List, use a name
and a password and don’t forget to write it down immediately J When creating the ad, you can receive requests for information by their anonymous method which you need to use, otherwise, if you use your real email address, you will get spam out the ears. Another person not to be forgotten is the show chairman (ours is a wonderful guy named George Dueben). I don’t know the half of how he does what he does and keeps it all organized! He runs to the post office daily to check for applications, keeps lists of who paid what for how many tables, sends postcard acknowledgements, AND THEN he has to plan for which dealer wants to be next to another dealer, and still allow for the dealers that want to stay where they’ve been for years. Once the day of set up arrives, George has a layout of the tables, all numbered in coordination with the list of dealers names, and he places numbers on the appropriate tables, so when the dealers arrive, all they have to do is look at the list and the layout and they can walk straight to their tables. (We won’t mention that this changes from year to year). Now you have an idea of what is involved in show planning, what ideas you can come up with to get the word out. You will be surprised how many folks out there collect bottles in your area and never knew about the show. Placing contact information for your club, on the handouts and flyers may also bring new members to your club. Remember the adage, “the more the merrier.”
Where there’s a will there’s a way to leave Donations to the FOHBC Did you know the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors is a 501C(3) charitable organization? How does that affect you? It allows tax deductions for any and all donations to the FOHBC. You might also consider a bequest in your will to the FOHBC. This could be a certain amount of money or part or all of your bottle collection. The appraised value of your collection would be able to be deducted from your taxes. (This is not legal advice, please consult an attorney) I give and bequeath to the Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors, 401 Johnston Ct, Raymore, MO 64083, the sum of $____________ to be used as its Board of Directors determines. The same type wording could be used for bequeathing your collection or part of it, however, before donating your collection (or part of it), you would need the collection appraised by a professional appraiser with knowledge of bottles and their market values. This is the amount that would be tax deductible. Thank you for considering us in your donation plans. Gene Bradberry, President Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors
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Classified Ads For sale For Sale: I will be at the Las Vegas. NV show in February at the Texas Station. I will have 36 Hutchs, 13 Blobs, 2 Siphons, 2 Mineral waters, 2 New Mexico cures, 1 Gravitator, 1 William Roorbach, 2 Paw-paws(1 crown, 1 amber) and 1 Denver Horseradish. All 60 for $2000. Cash and Carry. Zang Wood, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, NM 87401 PH:505-327-1316 or zapa33-51@msn.com For Sale: Zarembo Mineral Springs Alaska, Quart size, crown, bim $600. Greg Reuter, 10243 S. Rosewood Way, Molalla, OR 97038, ph: (503)989-0042 For Sale: P.L. Keyser/Washington D.C./ THIS BOTTLE IS NEVER SOLD. Aqua near mint-$125; Chocolate amber, Robertson & Co. Phila/California Pop Beer-near mint -$175; J. Raynald/ The World Ink-lip chip-$100. Call Greg Gifford, (215)530-8645 or email grgmam@aol.com
wanted Trade Or Buy: Quality bitters, blob sodas and embossed medicines from PA, KY, NY and other eastern states. Mint or grade 9.2 only. Also medicine bottles from Hollandel Bros Drug Co, Braddock, PA. Serious collector. David Adams, 321 S. Maple St. #4, Winchester, KY 40391 or bottman1963@yahoo.com Wanted:Eastern Oregon sodas, hutches. Paying top dollar. Greg Reuter, 10243 S. Rosewood Way, Molalla, OR 97038, ph: (503)989-0042 Wanted: Can you help me confirm that an aqua pint milk bottle exists, embossed L.J. Ewell & Co., X.L. Dairy, Depot 21st & Folsom Sts., or if it
Alan Demaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painsville, OH 44077 Alan Demaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painsville, OH 44077
phone: (H) 440-358-1223, (C) 440-796-7539 e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net
Bottles and Extras has been found in any other size or color. I would like to obtain a color photo to use in a display of X.L. Dairy milk bottles at the Reno Expo 2012 show in July. Contact: Ken Morrill, ph: (831) 722-4740, email: arrowheadfarms@cruzio.com Wanted & For Sale! Target balls and anything related to target balls or exhibition shooting from the 1870s80s. I want the history behind all of this for my 60-page newsletter, On Target! (subscriptions are $40 a year). Ralph Finch, 34007 Hillside Ct., Farmington Hills, MI 48335-2513. (248) 476-4893 or rfinch@twmi.rr.com or ralphfinch@ gmail.com Wanted: Sacramento Whiskey: THEO. BLAUTH/WHOLESALE WINE/&/LIQUER DEALORS/ SACRAMENTO, CAL. Barnett #55. Contact: Steve Abbott, ph: (916) 6318019, email: foabbott@comcast.net Wanted: Always looking for Carl Mampes Bottles that we do not have. Also Indiana Bitters. www.bottlepicker. com, wicker1@locl.net, 260-347-4551 or 260-347-5304 Wanted: Hutchinson’s: El Dorado / Bottling Co. / Dawson / Y. T.-Old Mexico-Panama-Puerto Rico-CubaGuatemala-Spain-Australia. Any other foreign countries. Zang Wood, 1612 Camino Rio, Farmington, NM 87401 PH:505-327-1316 or zapa33-51@msn.com Wanted: Bottles from the following PA towns; Norristown, Doylestown, Lansdale, Souderton, Telford, Shannonville, Pottstown, North Wales. Call Greg Gifford, (215)530-8645 or email grgmam@aol.com Wanted: A. M. TODD, Kalamazoo, MI bottles and paper items. Peppermint King of Michigan, company still operating. Large bottles have paper labels, Crystal White Peppermint, and small bottles are embossed with his name. Also interested in other Peppermint Oil Bottles such as H.G.
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and L. B. Hotchkiss, Hale & Parshall, etc. Richard Kelley, 315-946-6316, Kelleye719@verizon.net Wanted: Patent medicine bottles and tins, show globes, drugstore advertising signs, medical kits, quack devices, drugstore cabinets and cases, old medical and pharmacy books, medical and drugstore photographs, etc. If it’s old and related to medicine or pharmacy, be sure to contact me! Generous finder’s fees paid! Craig A. Maxwell, 2449 Ross-Millville Road #179, Hamilton, Ohio 45013, ph:513-923-1549 or 513-741-4404, themaxwellshouse@roadrunner.com Wanted: Blobtop beer embossed Markmann, Philada, PA, Ed DeHaven, 23 W. Golden Oak Ln., Marmora, NJ 09223, ph: 609-390-1898 Wanted: MINNESOTA PATENT MEDICINES.Advancedcollectorwillpay top prices for these: Washington Lotion; Cirkler’s Borated Cream; Thompson’s Throat Lozenges; Knowlton’s Liniment; Caswell’s Blood Cleaner; Wheeler’s Sarsaparilla; Great Mormon Remedy; Nature’s Liver Renovator; American Chicken Cholera Cure; Dr. Tolstoi’s Life Prolonger, Prevento Worm Syrup, others. Also advertising etc. related to Minnesota Medicines. Boyd Beccue, P.O. Box 3232, Willmar, MN 56201. 320-235-4235. boydlaw@qwestoffice.net
KETCHUP, PICKLES, SAUCES 19th Century Food in Glass Betty Zumwalt, author 498 pages of pictures & research of glass containers the early food industry utlilized Smyth Bound - $25 $10 Christmas Special Mark West Publishers PO Box 1914 Sandpoint, ID 86864
All ads must be paid for in advance. Make checks payable to FOHBC (Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors) Send payment to: Alan DeMasion, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painesville, OH 44077
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FOHBC Sho-Biz
Calendar of shows and related events FOHBC Sho-Biz is published in the interest of the hobby. Federation affiliated clubs are connotated with FOHBC logo. Insulator shows (courtesy of Crown Jewels) are indicated with an insulator. Information on up-coming collecting events is welcome, but space is limited. Please send at least three months in advance, including telephone number to: FOHBC Sho-Biz, C/O Alan Demaison, 1605 Clipper Cove, Painsville, OH 44077 or e-mail: a.demaison@sbcglobal.net Show schedules are subject to change. Please call before traveling long distances. All listings published here will also be published on the website: http://www.FOHBC.org
January 6 & 7 Palmetto, Florida 43rd Annual Suncoast Antique Bottle Show & Sale Friday, 06 January (1:00 pm to 7:45 pm) & Saturday 07 January (9 am to 5 pm) at the Manatee Convention & Civic Center; 1 Haben Boulevard, Palmetto, Florida 34221. Info: George Dueben, 727.393.8189 or 727.804.5959. E-mail:res08w341@verizon.net or Linda Buttstead 941.722.7233. E-mail: OriginalSABCA@aol.com January 8 South Attleboro, Massachusetts The Little Rhody Bottle Club Annual Show & Sale, (10;00 am – 2:00 pm, early buyers 9:00 am) at the K of C Hall, 304 Highland Avenue, South Attleboro, Massachusetts, Info: Bill or Linda Rose, 508.880.4929. January 21 Jackson, Mississippi Mississippi Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am to 4:00 pm), Dealer set-up (Friday 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am) at the Trade Mart Building, Mississippi Fairgrounds, Jackson, Mississippi, Info: John Sharp, P.O. Box 601, Carthage, Mississippi 39051, Cell: 601.507.0105. johnsharp49@aol.com January 28 Anderson, California Superior California Antique Bottle Club’s 36th Annual Show and Sale. (9:00 am to 4:00 pm) at the Shasta County Fair grounds, Anderson County. Info: Mel Hammer 530.241.4878 or Phil McDonald 530.243.6903 February 4 Rome, Georgia Rome Bottle and Collectibles Club Annual Show & Sale (8:00 am to 3:00 pm, setup Friday 3:00 pm to 8:00 pm), at the
Rome Civic Center, 402 Civic Center Drive, Rome, Georgia, Free Admission, Info: Jerry Mitchell, 770.537.3725, email: mitjt@aol.com or Bob Jenkins 770.834.0736 February 5 South River, New Jersey The 17th Annual New Jersey Antique Bottle Club South River Show at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 88 Jackson Street, South River, New Jersey 08882, Sunday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No early admission, Admission: $3.00, www. newjerseyantiquebottleclub.com, Contact: Joe Butewicz, President/ Treasurer, 24 Charles Street, South River, New Jersey 08882-1603, 732.236-.9945, botlman@msn.com February 17 & 18 Columbia, South Carolina The South Carolina Bottle Club presents the 39th Annual South Carolina Bottle Club Show and Sale, Friday 17 February (11:00 am – 6:00 pm) Saturday, 18 February (9:00 am – 1:00 pm), No Early Admission Fee, Meadowlake Park Center, 600 Beckman Road, Columbia, South, Carolina 29203, 803.754.4463 (exit 71 off I-20, Go 2 Blocks North to Corner. Southcarolinabottleclub.com February 17 & 18 Las Vegas, Nevada Las Vegas Antique Bottles & Collectibles Club 47th Annual Show and Sale at the Texas Station Gambling Hall and Hotel, 2101 Texas Star Lane, North Las Vegas, Nevada 89032, Friday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm, Saturday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Early buyers $15.00 for both days 7:00 am on Saturday for Early buyers. General Admission $5.00. Info: Mark O’Dell, M1t2odell@aol.com (Show Chairman), Tele: 702.395.7110 (home), 702.339.0392 (cell). Supported by Las Vegas Bottle Club, FOHBC Club
February 18 Columbus, Ohio Columbus Antique Bottle, Fruit Jar & Insulator Show at the Ohio State Fairgrounds Rhodes Center, 17th Avenue, Exit 111, Columbus, Ohio 43211, Saturday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Early Admission 7:00 am – 9 am, Early Admission $25.00, General Admission $3.00, Findlay Bottle Club, Findlaybottleclub.com, Contact: Joe Hardin, Co-Chairman, 594 Laymon Road, New Vienna, Ohio 45159, Tele: 937-7289930, email: jkcollectables@gmail.com February 18 Aurora, Oregon The Oregon Bottle Collectors Association 2012 Winter Antique Bottle & Collectible Show & Sale will be held at the American Legion Hall in Aurora, Oregon. Set-up & Early Birds begin Friday, February 17th. Dealer drop-off is at 12 noon. Set-up & Early Birds 1:00 pm – 6:00 pm. Dealer Set-up 8:00 am – 9:00 am on Saturday, February 18th. Regular public admission is 9:00 am – 3:00 pm Saturday February 18th. For more info and/or table reservations contact: Jim or Julie Dennis (541) 467-2760 or e-mail: jmdennis@hotmail.com February 24 & 25 Phoenix, Arizona The Phoenix Antiques Bottles & Collectibles Club, Joined by the AZ Antiques & Collectibles Club Antique Show, Friday 24 February 3:00 pm – 8:00 pm, Early Bird at 2:00 pm., Saturday, 25 February 9:00 am – 4:00 pm. Info: bettchem@cox.net, phoenixantiquesclub.org February 25 Grandville, Michigan 23rd Annual West Michigan Antique Bottle Show, Neal Fonger American Legion Post, 2327 Wilson, S.W., Grand
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(More) Sho-Biz Rapids, Michigan, Saturday 10:00 am – 3:00 pm, No early admission, Admission $2.00, Contact: Elmer Ogg, Show Chairman, 1591 Hendrick Road, Muskegon, Michigan 49441, 231.798.7335, elogg@comcast.net February 25 Sarasota, Florida The Sarasota-Manatee Antique Bottle Collectors 26th Annual ‘”TailGators” Indoor Show & Sale, (9:00 am – 3:00 pm) at the Florida National Guard Armory at the Sarasota County Fairgrounds, 2980 Fruitville Road, Sarasota, Florida, Info: Ed Herrold, P.O. Box 18928, Sarasota, Florida 34276, Tele: 941.923.6550, email: drbitters@mindspring.com February 26 Enfield, Connecticut Somers Antique Bottle Club 42nd Annual Show & Sale (9:00 am to 2:00 pm, early buyers 8:00 am) at the St. Bernard’s School West Campus, 232 Pearl Street (Exit 47-West from I-91), Enfield, Connecticut 06082. Info: Rose Sokol, 860.745.7688, enfieldrose@aol.com March 4 Baltimore, Maryland The Baltimore Antique Bottle Club presents its 32nd Annual Show and Sale, Sunday, 04 March 2012, Doors open: 8:00 am – 3:00 pm., Physical Education Center, Essex Campus-Community College of Baltimore County, 7201 Rossville Blvd. (off exit 34, I-695), Baltimore, Maryland, Free Bootle Appraisals, The largest oneday bottle show in the world!-over 300 tables, Admission $3.00, Information contact: Rick Lease (Show Chairman), 410.239.8918, baltojar@comcast. net, For contracts: Andy Agnew, 410.527.1707, medbotls@comcast.net, www.baltimorebottleclub.org
March 9 & 10 Chico, California 46th annual antique botttle, jar, insulator & collectable show and sale. Friday and Saturday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, Chico. Friday, 10-7 Admission $5, Saturday 9-4 (Free Admsission) Contact: Randy Taylor, P.O. Box 1065, Chico, California, 95927 530-518-7369, RTJARGUY@AOL.COM March 10 St. Joseph, Missouri The Missouri Valley Insulator Club presents the 10th Annual St. Joseph Insulator/Bottle Show & Sale at the American Legion Post 359, 4826 Frederick Avenue, St. Joseph, Missouri 64506, Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, No early admission, Free Admission, Contact: Dennis R. Weber, 3609 Jackson Street, St. Joseph, Missouri 64507, Tele: 816.364.1312, stjoeshow2012@aol.com March 16 & 17 Deland, Florida The Deland Florida M-T Bottle Collectors Club presents the Annual Deland Florida M-T Antique Bottle & Insulator Show, Volusia County Fairgrounds, Bill Hestor Building, 3150 East New York Avenue, Deland, Florida 32724, Friday 4:00 pm -7:00 pm, Saturday 8:00 am – 3:00 pm, Early buyers 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm Friday and before 8:00 am on Saturday, $20.00, Dealer set up Friday 16 March from 1:00 pm – 7:00 pm. Early Admission $20:00, Saturday Show Free from 8:00 am – 3:00 pm. Deland Florida M-T Bottle Collectors Club www.m-tbottleclub.com Brian Hoblick, Bottle Show Chairman, P.O. Box 2015, De Leon Springs, Florida 32130, 386.804.9635 hoblick@aol.com March 18 Flint, Michigan The Flint Antique Bottle and Collectibles Club will be hosting it’s 42nd Annual Show and Sale (9:00 am to 3:00 pm). The show will be held at the Dom Polski Hall, 3415
N. Linden Road, Flint, Michigan, Info: Tim Buda 11353 Cook Road, Gaines, Michigan 48436. PH: 989.271.9193 or e-mail tbuda@shianet.org Admission fee $2:00 No early admissions. March 23 & 24 Morro Bay, California The San Luis Obispo Bottle Society’s 44th Annual Show and Sale Friday 1:00 pm to 6: 00 pm and Saturday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Morro Bay Veterans Hall, 209 Surf Street, Morro Bay, California. Free admission and no charge to early birds. Info: Richard Tartaglia 805.543.7484. March 24 Mobile, Alabama The Mobile Bottle Collectors Club’s 39th Annual Show & Sale will be held on Saturday, 24 March 2012 from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm at the Daphne Civic Center, Whispering Pines Road and US Hwy. 98, Daphne, Alabama. Free Admission. Dealer Setup is Friday, 23 March from 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm and Saturday 7:00 am to 9:00 am. Contact: Rod Vining: Tele: 251.957.6725, Email: vinewood@ mchsi.com, or Richard Kramerich, PO Box 241, Pensacola, Florida 32591. Tele: 850.435.5425. Email: daphnebottleshow@gmail.com March 25 Brewerton, New York The Empire State Bottle Collectors Association 42nd Annual Show & Sale, (9:00 am – 3:00 pm) at the Brewerton Fire Hall, 9625 Route 11, Brewerton, New York, Info: Dave Tuxill Phone: 315.469.0629, email: dtuxill@twcny.rr.com April 1 Bloomington, Minnesota 41st Minnesota Antique Bottle, Advertising and Stoneware Show & Sale at the Crowne Plaza & Suites Airport, 34th Avenue South and American Boulevard, Bloomington, Minnesota 55425, Sunday, 9:30 am – 2:30 pm. No early admission.
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(More) Sho-Biz Set-up Sunday 6:30 am – 9:30 am. Admission is $5.00, Steve Ketcham is Show Chairman, Box 24114, Edina, Minnesota 55424, 952.221.0915, steve@ antiquebottledepot.com. Sponsoring Club: North Star Historical Bottle Club and Minnesota’s First ABC. April 15 Rochester, New York The Genesee Valley Bottle Collectors Association’s 43rd Annual Bottle Show & Sale (Table Top Antiques Paper & Postcards) at the Monroe County Fair & Expo Center, Minett Hall, Route 15A & Calkins Road, Henrietta, New York, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Admission $4.00, www. gvbca, Show and Dealer Chairs: Aaron Weber and Pam Weber, 585.226.6345, gvbca@frontiernet.net April 21 Kalamazoo, Michigan The Kalamazoo Antique Bottle Club’s 33rd Annual Show & Sale (10:00 am - 3:00 pm) (early buyers 8:00 am) at the Kalamazoo County Fairgrounds, 2900 Lake Street, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Info: John Pastor, PO Box 227, New Hudson, Michigan 48165, Tele: 248.486.0530, email: jpastor@ americanglassgallery.com or Mark McNee, Tele: 269.343.8393. May 5 Gray, Tennessee The State of Franklin Antique Bottles & Collectibles Association announces the 14th Annual State of Franklin Antique Bottle & Collectibles Association Show & Sale, Farm and Home Building at the Appalachian Fairgrounds, Chapel Street, Gray, Tennessee 37615, NEW ONE DAY SHOW, Saturday 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No Early Buyers, Set-up Saturday 7:00 am – 9:00 am, Free Admission, www.sfabca. com, Melissa Milner, Show Chairman, 230 Rock House Road, Johnson City, Tennessee 37601, Tele: 423.928.4445, mmilner12@chartertn.net
May 06 Antioch, Illinois Antique Bottle Club of Northern Illinois 37th Annual Antiques, Bottles & Collectibles Show & Sale 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, Antioch Senior Center, 817 Holbeck, Antioch, Illoinois 60002. Free Admission, Free Appraisals. For information call John Puzzo at 815.338.7582 or Greg Schueneman at 847.623.7572. May 11 & 12 Mansfield, Ohio The Ohio Bottle Club’s 34th Mansfield Antique Bottle & Advertising Show & Sale, (9:00 am – 2:00 pm), early buyers Friday 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm) at the Richland County Fairgrounds, Mansfield, Ohio, Info: Bill Koster, Tele: 330.690.2794 or Ohio Bottle Club, PO Box 585, Barberton, Ohio 44203, www.ohiobottleclub.com May 20 Hammonton, New Jersey The New Jersey Antique Bottle Club presents the 2nd Annual New Jersey Bottle Show at the Hammonton Volunteer Fire Company #2, 51 N. White Horse Pike, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, Sunday, 9:00 am – 3:00 pm, No early admission, 7:00 am set up, $3.00 admission, www. newjerseyantiquebottleclub.com, Paul DelGuercio, Show Chairman, 548 Spring Road, Hammonton, New Jersey 08037, Tele: 856.252.7730, paulhavoc@comcast.net May 20 Washington, Pennsylvania The Washington County Antique Bottle Club presents the 38th Annual Washington County Antique Bottle Show & Sale at the Alpine Star Lodge, 735 Jefferson Avenue, Washington, Pennsylvania 15312, Sunday 9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Set-up Sunday at 7:00 am, $3.00 admission, Attn: Russ Crupe, President/Show Chairman, 52 Cherry
Road, Avella, Pennsylvania 15312, 412.298.783, heidirus@gmail.com July 21, 2012 Leadville, Colorado Antique Bottle Collectors of Colorado’s 8th Annual Show & Sale (9am - 4pm with setup at 6am). $3 admission, at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum Convention Center, 117 W 10th St, Leadville, CO. Info: Jim and Barb Sundquist, 2861 Olympia Ln, Evergreen, CO 80439, ph: (303) 674-4658. July 27 – 29 Reno, Nevada Federation of Historical Bottle Collector’s EXPO at the Grand Sierra Hotel and Resort, Reno, Nevada, Marty Hall, Show Chairman, 775.852.6045, rosemuley@charter.net November 17 Milford, Ohio St. Andrew Antique Bottle Show (9:00 am – 1:00 pm) with Early Admission at 7:00 am for $15.00. $4 admission, at St. Andrew Parish Center (2 minutes from I-275) 553 Main Street in Milford, Ohio, Information: Steve Singer, 1684 Autumn Oak Drive, Batavia, Ohio 45103, Tele: 513.732.2793, singersams@yahoo.com
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FOHBC MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY New Members Scott Gibbons 5426 S. 314th Street Auburn, WA 98001 gibboinwa@comcast.net WA state/territory pharmacy and druggist bottles (cork top or screw top with lid) John S. Fleming 16 Alden Ave. Belchertown, MA 01007 JFleming007@charter.net Flasks, Inks, and some bitters Jon Steiner W232 N6208 Waukesha Ave. Sussex, WI 53089 galaxieracer@aol.com Milwaukee, Wisconsin related advertising, stoneware and bottles embossed and paper labeled: cork/ blob: whiskeys, flasks, medicines, beers, sodas, stoneware bottles & etc. the earlier the better. John Walthall 1528 Weston Pointe Springfield, IL 62704 jwalthall6@gmail.com Illinois bottles, glass & stoneware David L. Hays 3600 River Bend Lane Waco, TX 76705 Antiquible@aol.com Antique bottles with dog images
James E. Livingston 149 Monroe St. Oceanside, CA 92057-4419 jlivings@vusd.k12.ca.us CaliforniaBlob-Topbeers;Bodie,CAbottles; Western sodas, medicines, & whiskies Greg Sweet 194 Allen Ave. Wakefield, RI 02879 gregsweet@koolco.necoxmail.com Flasks, bitters, blown glass, black glass Daniel & Lynn Meyer 2482 Roxana St. Placerville, CA 95667 meyer-daniel@sbcglobal.net all old bottles
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Changes David Adams 321 S. Maple Street #4 Winchester, KY 40391 bottman1963@yahoo.com Bitters, blob tops and medicines Roger Koch RKoch444@gmail.com Rex Barber barbers@fairtel.com.au
Matthew Levanti 700 Skyline Court Placerville, CA 95667 m.tigue-levanti@hotmail.com Digger, I collect what I dig and I dig good stuff
Bob Watson 17 Jefferson St. Cattaraugus, NY 14719
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